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Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ)
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Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), who is challenging Sen. John McCain in the August 24 primary, has explained another reason to repeal birthright citizenship for all people born in the United States: That "birth tourism" is resulting in people around the world timing their pregnancies so that births coincide with visits to America.
During an appearance this morning on MSNBC, Hayworth said: "It's not exclusive to our neighbors to the south, from Mexico. Many families around the world in the jet age are timing the gestation period to come to the United States, to have the blessed event here, so that the new birthright citizen will have access to a phalanx of American benefits, courtesy of you and me and other American taxpayers."
An ABC News story earlier this year reported that actual birth tourism does exist as a real phenomenon -- separate from the issue of the children of illegal immigrants -- but accounts for perhaps only a few thousand births per year. Given the costs involved, these would probably be the children of well-off families who would likely not require financial benefits of American citizenship, but would be seeking such a thing more from a legal standpoint.
The TPM Poll Average shows McCain leading Hayworth by 53.6%-32.1%.
Birthright citizenship is a legal principle based in the 14th Amendment: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." In the absence of birthright citizenship, it is possible for people to be born without having citizenship in any country at all, due to failure to meet some extra requirement that could be imposed, such as ancestry or other circumstances.
During his appearance, Hayworth added: "The original intent of the 14th Amendment, as offered by Sen. Jacob Howard, dealt with the clause 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof.' In his floor speech, Sen. Howard made it very clear that diplomats nor aliens, were subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Ergo, their children would not have birthright citizenship."
The quote from Sen. Howard is a bit more ambiguous than that: "This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of person." It's unclear whether Howard was referring to different categories of people, or a single category or foreigners who belong to the families of ambassadors. At any rate, courts have historically interpreted the clause in its most broad fashion.
Hayworth is not the only conservative to oppose birthright citizenship -- nor to provide some interesting reasons why. A month ago, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) warned of a diabolical 30-year plot by some very patient terrorists, in a speech on the House floor: "I talked to a retired FBI agent who said that one of the things they were looking at were terrorist cells overseas who had figured out how to game our system. And it appeared they would have young women, who became pregnant, would get them into the United States to have a baby. They wouldn't even have to pay anything for the baby. And then they would turn back where they could be raised and coddled as future terrorists. And then one day, twenty, thirty years down the road, they can be sent in to help destroy our way of life."
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Roma Victors
July 29, 2010 11:57 AM
I tried for a very long time to convince myself it would be OK if Hayworth beat McCain in the primary, since such an event would effectively hand the election to Democrats. But that smirk on Hayworth's face has made me realize that I just couldn't stand anything that brings happiness to Hayworth.
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Steaming Pile
July 29, 2010 2:18 PM in reply to Roma Victors
I never thought I'd say this, but John McCain would be the better choice for Arizona - by a long shot. I used to see this guy bray on about this same kind of shit on CSPAN when he was in the House of Representatives. What an asshole.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 2:23 PM in reply to Steaming Pile
Well what progressives call "assholes", we rational people call them champions of the Constitution.
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July 29, 2010 2:36 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Right! Because the constitution is perfect as it was whispered into George Washington's ear by Jesus, who was American, and thus it never needed amending. oh wait...
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 3:36 PM in reply to Juno
1963 Communist Goals
The communist goals were entered into the Congressional record by Albert Herlong, Jr. (a Floridian who served in Congress from 1949-69).
29) Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30) Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man".
31) Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture": Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
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vasu
July 29, 2010 3:28 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
And by champion of the Constitution, you mean person who wants to take away your rights. Patriot Act anyone? How about religious freedom for all, just not Christians?
And I wouldn't call you rational if you back this asshat. I would call you someone who Haywood teabagged... Making you a teabagger.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 3:32 PM in reply to vasu
Ha - ha - ha, Ho - ho - ho - And a couple of tra - la - las
That's how we laugh the day away, In the Merry Old Land of Oz!
Bzz - bzz - bzz, Chirp - chirp - chirp - And a couple of La - di - das
That's how the crickets crick all day, In the Merry Old Land of Oz!
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tinsk
July 29, 2010 2:40 PM in reply to Roma Victors
While I do think JD Hayworth is a looney toon, he is sort of correct on this issue.
There is a booming birth tourist trade on the west coast. Primarily CA and WA. Where woman, usually 7 months pregnant come to the US to give birth at a host home and then fly back to their native country. I know this for fact. I personally know a family from Taiwan who has done this twice. As recently as 2 months ago.
However, it is not a Mexican phenomena. It is primarily an Asian thing. Mostly middle-upper income woman from Taiwan, Korea, The Philippines and China. The woman from Taiwan and Korea do it out of fear of conflict and future education. The Philippines for economic reasons. And China? Well, they're a problem. Their motives for having American born Chinese citizens should be a very big concern. By far, the Chinese are doing this more so than any other nation.
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philamont
July 29, 2010 3:14 PM in reply to tinsk
I would ask for a bit more evidence of the "booming" birth tourism you describe you know "for a fact" is happening. Anecdotes of a family you know of doing it twice isn't good enough. And I'm not sure what I'm missing, but why should we be particularly concerned about Chinese women doing this? Why would their motives be any different that those you ascribe to Taiwanese and other women?
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tinsk
July 29, 2010 4:35 PM in reply to philamont
I am as liberal as the day is long. I'm not passing judgment on the practice. I'm only confirming that there is a booming trade in the practice. I've been doing business in Asia for 25 years. I lived in Japan for 4 years. I spend more than 3 months over the course of any given year, in Taiwan. My wife is American born Taiwanese. While I am not Asian, I have extensive family ties in Taiwan.
I know what I am talking about. It is far more common among the upper middle class of Taiwan, Korea and the Philippines than you may think. It is considered somewhat of a status symbol as well. As I said, the Taiwanese and Koreans who do this, do so because of future uncertainty. Or at least that's what they say. It is not a common practice with the Japanese.
They do not do it for the reasons that JD Hayworth is trying to scare people about. They are not doing it for our free services. But it is being done in an semi-organized way.
On the west coast, families rent out "host homes" where 3 or more pregnant woman at a time will live until they give birth. Kind of like a hostel for pregnant woman. There is an entire network of these "pregnancy hostels" throughout CA and WA. A few weeks after they give birth, they go back home with a child with an American passport. Maybe that child comes back to the US. Maybe they don't. It is a parent's hedge against an uncertain future for their children.
As for the PROC, pregnant woman don't leave China unless the government approves. The children born here are euphemistically referred to as ABC kids. American Born Chinese. The concern, expressed by those in Taiwan is that select numbers of the PROC children will eventually come back to the US for advanced education, get jobs in high tech industries and transfer technologies back to the PROC.
Whether that happens remains to be seen. But it is not beyond the realm of possibility based on how things work in China.
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henryh
July 30, 2010 11:30 PM in reply to tinsk
MCCAIN IS STILL FAR BETTER FOR THE POSITION
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July 29, 2010 12:03 PM
In a peculiar way, this shows exactly how much the anti-immigrant hysteria on the right is based on pure racism as opposed to what one might consider to be more legitimate concerns like financial support of indigent aliens.
I find the idea that it would be a bad thing to have affluent people from places like Taiwan who are concerned about their children having citizenship in a free country fly here to give birth and create a connection with the United States to be just strange.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 12:40 PM in reply to Bart
You are lost in your progressive dogma and not know what you speak of...take a clue pill and wake up!
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david hilton
July 29, 2010 12:44 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
I don't think anyone here takes you seriously n/t
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 12:48 PM in reply to david hilton
So what? Do you think I care?
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nova voter
July 29, 2010 1:34 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
yes.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 2:08 PM in reply to nova voter
to what degree?
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nova voter
July 29, 2010 2:45 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
as i type this, you are responsible for 20 of the 49 posts in this thread. i'd say you care to a pretty extreme degree.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 3:11 PM in reply to nova voter
Fair enough, you got me!
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KingCool
July 29, 2010 1:58 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
"So what?"
LOL! Good one! "So what?"....I gotta use that one sometime.
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July 29, 2010 2:05 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Well I do like Wolfmother. Oh wait, different dogma.
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Signalman
July 29, 2010 4:27 PM in reply to Bart
Excellent point, Bart. If a family is well-off, educated, etc. and chooses to come here for the birth of their child, I'm not seeing the problem. So long as we're not *selling* citizenship and the non-native family members would still have to go the traditional route to becoming Americans (or so long as they followed the procedure to be and stay resident aliens), I'm not seeing the problem.
IIRC, P. J. O'Rourke said something similar when he once observed that some Cubans were willing to paddle leaky life rafts 90 miles through shark-infested waters just so they could have a crack at serving Cuba Libres to fat tourists or doing housekeeping work in hotels in Miami. Those are the sorts of determined, hardworking people, he said, that a country should *want* to accept as citizens.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 12:05 PM
JD is 100% correct, only seditious progressives that want to undermine our republican form of government would disagree.
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LESD
July 29, 2010 12:31 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Seditious progressives? Did someone in the Democratic Party threaten to secede?
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 12:35 PM in reply to LESD
No, to just undermine our republican form of government by introducing more socialism without going thru the ART V Amendment process...
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midnight rambler
July 29, 2010 12:49 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Funny, I've never heard conservatives argue before that resident aliens are not subject to the laws of the United States, just like foreign diplomats. So the immigrants in jails should all be released and either let off or deported, right?
Seriously, how can people be this stupid?
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 12:53 PM in reply to midnight rambler
"So the immigrants in jails should all be released and either let off or deported, right?"
Deport them right after the have serve their time...sounds "right" to me!
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midnight rambler
July 29, 2010 12:56 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
If they're not subject to laws, they don't go to jail at all - diplomats get off scot-free for minor offenses, and get expelled with no punishment for major ones like killing someone. That's what you're proposing for everyone, but you and Hayworth seem to be too dumb to realize it.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 1:02 PM in reply to midnight rambler
Like most progressives you have misread 14th Amendment and ignored its original intent. Please don't bother to reply your progressive conjecture I have heard it too many times before, say something real for once...can you do that?
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KingCool
July 29, 2010 2:01 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Now now....don't take your ball and go home. I, for one, need to hear more of your refreshing take on our country. I am learning so much from your screeds! You must be a professor somewhere!
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 2:06 PM in reply to KingCool
I'm not going anywhere, are you?
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KingCool
July 29, 2010 2:17 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Man, you're a feisty one. You seem like you have anger issues...do you see someone about that?
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 2:21 PM in reply to KingCool
Yes...Captain Morgan!
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thepoliticalcat
July 29, 2010 3:12 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Does that mean that foreigners who commit crimes upon our soil have immunity to our laws? We can't arrest them, only deport them to their home countries for arrest and punishment. Funny, that.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 3:19 PM in reply to thepoliticalcat
Get in the ball game, I already answered that question...
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Mom, Esq.
July 29, 2010 12:15 PM
I, for one, am glad my current and imminent children, born here in the good old USA, are also entitled to Canadian citizenship thanks to their (legal resident) alien father so that when the Hayworth-type zanies really do take over this country, they can get their asses out of here and live someplace relatively sane.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 12:24 PM in reply to Mom, Esq.
So if all Mexico decided to get up and walk across the border and demand US citizenship you would be happy with that?
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LESD
July 29, 2010 12:32 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
>>>So if all Mexico decided to get up and walk across the border and demand US citizenship you would be happy with that?
Yeah, that's exactly what he's saying.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 12:37 PM in reply to LESD
Then he/she is a seditious progressive bastard that should have their citizenship revoked.
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KingCool
July 29, 2010 2:02 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Dude, what you are saying sounds fascist to me. You, sir, are an ignoramus. And a homonculus.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 2:05 PM in reply to KingCool
So you are supporting the Mexican Invasion?
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KingCool
July 29, 2010 2:21 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Listen to you...you are a paranoid fascist, the best kind. WHAT mexican invasion? I'm more worried about a bunch of ignorant, gullible, red-necks running around accidently discharging their guns in eachother's faces.
You have these crazy delusions that they will swarm over you or something, when basically they are going to work for the people that pull your strings. YOU ARE BEING PLAYED, sir, and you don't even question it. Go back to your FOX news, your World Net Daily and all that other good stuff. And don't foget your meds...
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 2:28 PM in reply to KingCool
"WHAT mexican invasion? ", are you really going pretend we are not being invaded by Mexico?
Please give me some real reasons and not just progressive hogwash, can you do that?
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vasu
July 29, 2010 3:51 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Just because you seem to not understand the definition of the word your using:
se·di·tion
   /sɪˈdɪʃən/ Show Spelled[si-dish-uhn] Show IPA
–noun
1.
incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
2.
any action, esp. in speech or writing, promoting such discontent or rebellion.
3.
Archaic . rebellious disorder.
Nothing that Dem/Progressives have done is seditious in any way shape or form. The Repukes on the other hand have again and again committed egregious acts of sedition, threatening to secede, creating laws that under cut the fed, creating laws and committing actions to undermine the president. That is sedition.
It's really not hard to go to dictionary.com or go to google or even grab a real life dictionary and look up the word before you use it. Doing so will make you seem a little less like a talking point repuke that can't think for himself.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 4:13 PM in reply to vasu
Ok, class here I go again and I know its not for the last time..
rebellion:
An act or a show of defiance toward an authority or established convention.
1. What is our authority or established convention?
Our Constitution class...our constitution...good not we can go to the next step.
2. And what form of government does Article 4 Section 4 of our Constitution guarantee to every state in the union?
A republican form of government...good class you are starting to catch on.
3. What are progressives doing that is seditious against our republican form of government?
Undermining the text of the Constitution by supporting the false doctrine of the living constitution that introduces socialism by unconstitutional democratic means without going thru the Article V Amendment process...great class I'm proud of you, you all seem to get now...?
Is that clear enough you all, if you all don't get now you all will never get so don't ask me to explain it to you all anymore...I'm tired of trying to get progressives to understand this concept...
But guess what I love to do it...ha...ha....
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vasu
July 29, 2010 5:32 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
/me stares blankly.
You know, I'm done talking to you. It doesn't matter what is said, or what facts are given, you'll just distort it and find some way to bring it back to the Conservative disinformation pack.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 5:45 PM in reply to vasu
Quit whining because I "out fact you", I just gave you logical steps to confirm my ascertains and you just won't accept them.
Well, you can lead a Jack-Ass to water but you can't make it drink...ha..ha..
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randomname
July 29, 2010 4:20 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Mexicans were here first
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KingCool
July 29, 2010 4:20 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Paranoia.
Invasion? Do you get your news anywhere besides FOX? Do you realize that there are fewer migrants coming across the border now than in the last ten years? That this current administration is responsible for MORE deportations than the current?
The invasion you speak of is a red herring, designed by the extreme right for the gullible masses(read: you!). It is distracting you (as we speak!) from the fiscal irresponsibilities of some of your lawmakers. Jan Brewer doesn't want you to focus on the high unemployment and acres of foreclosed homes in her state; WHAT ABOUT THEM MESSICANS? BOO! You guys run to their commands like lemmings, without questioning anything EXCEPT the patriotism of others. Time to lift the veil, my friend. Put down the Marlboro Reds, turn off your Nugent, step out of your single wide (but don't forget to turn off the gas!), rub your eyes a bit and look around. The only invasion is of the increasing shrill and paranoid rantings coming from the Right.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 4:36 PM in reply to KingCool
What do you call hundreds of tunnels from Mexico going under the border fence into the US?
What do you call the thousands of illegals that try to cross Mexican border with maps provided by the Mexican Government?
What do you call the hundreds of boats carrying thousands of illegal that land on the coast of San Diego?
What do you call the hundreds of encroachments by corrupt units of the Mexican Army?
What do you call the killing of over 7,000 Americans since 9/11 by illegals from Mexico?
I'm sure a seditious progressive like you would call it nothing but "Right-Winger racists rants",...yep that's what you would call it...
...but I and other Patriots call it INVASION.
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KingCool
July 29, 2010 5:30 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Who christened you a patriot? What authority do you carry to call yourself that and others "seditious bastards"? Did the Grand Dragon of the KKK bestow upon you these powers? You are a scared little man; you probably can't get that pretty girl down the street to look at you. You are most likely overweight (and, if not, on meth) and eating cheet-os right now. AMIRITE?
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 5:42 PM in reply to KingCool
True, unabashed hatred...I expect that from you seditious progressive bastards.
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KingCool
July 29, 2010 5:45 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Sticks and stones.
Tsk tsk, so much darkness in your heart. I would love to hear some more theories from you. Please continue! ENLIGHTEN US WITH YOUR OVERPOWERING LOGIC!
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 5:58 PM in reply to KingCool
My heart, are you sure you can see yourself in a mirror?
Because the 'Nosferatu' cannot see themselves in a mirror and they have no heartbeat because the have no pulse. When was the last time you taken your pulse?
Are you allergic to garlic?
I know you hate crosses and all thing Christian.
Heart oh yes I have heart...do you?
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KingCool
July 29, 2010 7:00 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
huh? Now I know where I have heard this type of argument before. That homeless guy on the corner of 6th and Pine, holding the porrly spelled signs, screaming about the end times.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 7:02 PM in reply to KingCool
Did you give him a dollar?
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tinsk
July 29, 2010 2:46 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Well, if that were to happen, I'd be more than happy to cross over there and claim the Yucatan for myself.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 3:09 PM in reply to tinsk
Why not the USA?
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Mary Alice
July 29, 2010 12:34 PM
If Arizona elects Hayworth they deserve him
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 12:38 PM in reply to Mary Alice
AZ would be lucky to have JD as their Senator, we need more just like him in the Senate to push back progressvism into its sinking socialist cave from which it oozed out of.
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Roma Victors
July 29, 2010 12:46 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
If you're against progressive ideas, you're against the Civil Rights amendment, against giving women the right to vote, and against pure food and drugs being certified by the US government. But since you equate socialism with progressives, you don't really have a clue about what you spew, and you mindlessly follow Fox talking points because they make you sound smart to yourself. Do you use a special pad to prevent your knuckles from bleeding as they drag along in the dirt?
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 12:51 PM in reply to Roma Victors
"progressive ideas", is not progressivism as a political movement that wants to introduce more socialism into our republican form of government without going thru the ART V Amendment process.
Hell, even I have "progressive ideas"...do you want to hear them?
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LESD
July 29, 2010 12:37 PM
I'd like to propose an idea: Every Mexican who wants to live in America can enter the US but must be replaced in Mexico by one conservative Republican.
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Joekuh
July 29, 2010 12:40 PM in reply to LESD
I second said suggestion. Can we start with Sarah "Repudiate" Palin?
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 12:42 PM in reply to Joekuh
Fascist
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randomname
July 29, 2010 4:31 PM in reply to Joekuh
I'd like to third that
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 12:41 PM in reply to LESD
Do you propose tyranny to execute your proposal?
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Militant Without A Cause
July 29, 2010 12:58 PM
I don't want to agree with him, but I did read something some years back about how women from Hong Kong before 1997, came here to have their babies so that they could have an anchor here just in case China decided to be a bit opressive when they took the island over. But of course they didn't because Hong Kong is a cash cow. I also read that South Korean woman did the same thing just in case Kim Jonk Ill got a itchy trigger finger.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 1:05 PM in reply to Militant Without A Cause
Of course they do, Americans are dopes and your reading some of their dopey excuses right here! Its all about new immigrants voting democrat and keeping the socialists in power.
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July 29, 2010 2:32 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Ya, morons, anchor babies work!! Not. A citizen cannot sponsor family members to be legal immigrants in the US until they're 21 years old. Big deal. 21 years later you can have your kid sponsor you, which is another 5-7 year wait if you weren't born in China, Mexico, or India, in which case it's 10 years or more. uh huh. anchor babies.
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 4:39 PM in reply to Juno
Our immigration laws are the most lenient in the world, are you high?
So you go to wait...wait or go to other country like Mexico who would be glad to have someone like you be a citizen.
Mexico needs more good citizens...give it try.
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Jim H
July 29, 2010 1:01 PM
And what are these phalanx of benefits exactly? I'm having trouble thinking of any worth the effort and risk of flying that late in a pregnancy.
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George C
July 29, 2010 1:14 PM
I'm not sure attacking Hayworth for this is valid. The Washington Post reported 10 days that Chinese-Americans were bringing wealthy pregnant Chinese women to the US so their children can have dual citizenship:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/17/AR2010071701402.html
The reality is that a) these people are not going to be drags on the economy; b) their children will be eligible to go to college here, a real advantage compared with their peers in China; and c) it's not clear this is something we should or shouldn't be concerned with. Worth a discussion, anyway, not the kind of knee-jerk responses some of us displayed above.
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goodstuff
July 29, 2010 1:53 PM
i would love to know what is the solution of the illegal immigrant from mexico that has a child with an illegal immigrant from ecuador?
where is the child a citizen from if the United States doesn't grant them citizenship?
Where do you "deport" them to?
Do you separate the family?
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Captain Crunch
July 29, 2010 2:20 PM
I suspect it's a race and a deep manner of honor and pride among Michele Bachmann, J.D. Hayworth and Tom Tancredo (with a noteworthy nod to Rand Paul and Sharron Angle) for the owner of the 'pointiest-tin-foil-hat'!
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DugFmJamul
July 29, 2010 2:30 PM in reply to Captain Crunch
Captain Crunch,
You are not looking like yourself today, is it something you ate or are you just watching too much MSNBC?
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July 29, 2010 2:37 PM
Right! Because the constitution is perfect as it was whispered into George Washington's ear by Jesus, who was American, and thus it never needed amending. oh wait...
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randomname
July 29, 2010 4:21 PM in reply to Juno
love this!
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tinsk
July 29, 2010 4:34 PM
I am as liberal as the day is long. I'm not passing judgment on the practice. I'm only confirming that there is a booming trade in the practice. I've been doing business in Asia for 25 years. I lived in Japan for 4 years. I spend more than 3 months over the course of any given year, in Taiwan. My wife is American born Taiwanese. While I am not Asian, I have extensive family ties in Taiwan.
I know what I am talking about. It is far more common among the upper middle class of Taiwan, Korea and the Philippines than you may think. It is considered somewhat of a status symbol as well. As I said, the Taiwanese and Koreans who do this, do so because of future uncertainty. Or at least that's what they say. It is not a common practice with the Japanese.
They do not do it for the reasons that JD Hayworth is trying to scare people about. They are not doing it for our free services. But it is being done in an semi-organized way.
On the west coast, families rent out "host homes" where 3 or more pregnant woman at a time will live until they give birth. Kind of like a hostel for pregnant woman. There is an entire network of these "pregnancy hostels" throughout CA and WA. A few weeks after they give birth, they go back home with a child with an American passport. Maybe that child comes back to the US. Maybe they don't. It is a parent's hedge against an uncertain future for their children.
As for the PROC, pregnant woman don't leave China unless the government approves. The children born here are euphemistically referred to as ABC kids. American Born Chinese. The concern, expressed by those in Taiwan is that select numbers of the PROC children will eventually come back to the US for advanced education, get jobs in high tech industries and transfer technologies back to the PROC.
Whether that happens remains to be seen. But it is not beyond the realm of possibility based on how things work in China.
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henryh
July 29, 2010 8:28 PM
The last sentence makes this entire article bogus to me. I just watched Graham last night talking about opposing birth rights. JD is not the pioneer he thinks he is, he is just too stupid to know the facts, he is too ignorant to know the difference and he is too corrupt to serve.
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