As an expats, living half or more of each year in Mexico, I would like to contribute to the conversation. I was born within 20 minutes of downtown Chicago. I lived, worked, and thrived in the US for 45 years. I still pay taxes there every year, 16 years after leaving.
I know many bi-national Mexican Americans that live full time in Mexico. Some have children actually born in Mexico that still attain US citizenship for their Spanish speaking children. They do this, not only for ease of travel, but for benefits. I know there are quite a few more than 10 million such individuals. They got stimulus Covid money that my wife (100% American) never received. We have US Democrat, multi-millionaire Demoncrat (former friends) that bragged on getting 3 stimulus payments, again, while we got zip.
The system is not only broken, it is rigged to produce an ever expanding class of citizens that will vote predominantly for the party that promises the most free stuff. Not good.
Pray for change. This 14th Amendment is one of least fair laws we can have in our modern, digital nomad era. It is as wrong as paying Fauci the biggest government pension ever while spending additional millions for his limousines and Secret Service detail. Some hills are worth dying one, or at least worth fighting for.
"“The problem is, when they turn 18, they’re going to be able to vote in the United States. They’re going to be able to contribute to political campaigns and apply for government jobs.”
They’ll also be able to serve on juries, purchase firearms, and serve in the military. So that’s comforting."
CAUTION: Slippery Slope Ahead!!
Q?: how many members of Congress/Senate hold dual citizenship?
A: With one easy answer: nobody knows for sure.
The Hill in 2015 suggested: "The Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress should begin to include citizenship (along with the current listings of party breakdown, age, occupations, education, Congressional service, religion, gender, ethnicity and military service) in its published profiles of each new Congress."
Depending on which search engine one uses, the answer is between 29 and 89, but since these leaders are not 'required' to state as such, most chose not to.
But, the question remains, who are they 'mostly' beholden to when an important vote is on the line?
Lastly, since people born in the land of Palestine, which to date has not been allowed to become a State/Country by the powers that be, these people/victims have no declared citizenship and therefore no rights period.
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Al Franken (D-MN) Herb Kohl (D-WI) Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) Joseph Lieberman (Independent-CT) Carl Levin (D-MI) Bernie Sanders (Independent-VT) Charles Schumer (D-NY) Ron Wyden (D-OR) Michael Bennet (D-CO)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES [27]
Gary Ackerman (D-NY) Shelley Berkley (D-NV) Howard Berman (D-CA) Eric Cantor (R-VA) David Cicilline (D-RI) Stephen Cohen (D-TN) Susan Davis (D-CA) Ted Deutch (D-FL) Eliot Engel (D-NY) Bob Filner (D-CA) Barney Frank (D-MA) Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) Jane Harman (D-CA) Steve Israel (D-NY) Sander Levin (D-MI) Nita Lowey (D-NY) Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Jared Polis (D-CO) Steve Rothman (D-NJ) Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) Adam Schiff (D-CA) Brad Sherman (D-CA) Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) Henry Waxman (D-CA) Anthony Weiner (D-NY) John Yarmuth (D-KY)
And that’s just the democrats!
Now, I will give you three guesses which "other" country they are "citizens" of, and the first two don't count...
and ron johnson. perhaps there are a few more. and others that can be persuaded to behave well if it looks like thats what the group mood is. overall I see no use for a group of overlords at any level telling us how to live our lives. humans have survived for a very long time by overseeing ourselves in small communities. despite the fake history we've all been indoctrinated in.
That this is even a conversation is mind bending. In addition to the 14th, there is this little nugget:
Article I, Section 8: The Congress shall have power…to establish a uniform rule of naturalization…
For context, from a friend who is a CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR: “The Framers entrusted Congress with exclusive authority to define how immigrants become citizens. The Naturalization Act of 1790 formalized the process: two years’ residency in the United States, proof of good moral character, and an oath to support the Constitution.”
So…HOW IS THIS EVEN AN ISSUE?? And, KBJ, how is Japan relevant to the conversation? I mean, I love sushi and all, but that doesn’t give me a right to claim Japanese citizenship 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️.
What's actually mind-bending is that Congress would rise to the level of Constitutionally mandated performance, perhaps even more mind-bending than KBJ's confirmation to the SCOTUS after she refused to define a woman.
congress has proven repeatedly that its only there for the pension and the mind bending stock picks and bribes. perhaps we should just disband it and hang a few of the more egregious criminals
Coney-Barrett and Roberts have something in common - adopted children. I'm not knocking adopting children, I'm just pointing out the interesting coincidence.
Barrett’s 2 adoptive kids are from Haiti. Robert’s from Ireland. Ireland restricted adoption of Irish children so somehow Robert’s circumvented the law by adopting them through Latin America. They are now adults.
Barrett seems a lib in R clothing. Her true allegiances show up in her voting. It seems Mitch McConnell told Trump to nominate Barrett when Ruth Ginsberg Bader died. That he’d get her through. Others insiders also, like Pence, Mark Meadows. She clerked for Scalia so it’s understandable that he’d think she may at least lean conservative.
To be honest, Chinese schools are probably not much different from our public schools. The indoctrination in our public schools is alarming. My youngest son graduates (God willing) this year, and it has been a complete nightmare, especially recently. They close schools to do online learning for 1/10th an inch of snow or the threat of a tornado. The teachers are offended by everything, which is unfortunate for my son with his lack of impulse control and dark sense of humor (he was raised by a doctor and a cop). In hindsight maybe we should not have let our kids watch Mel Brooks movies at a young age (oops). They have zero tolerance for any mistakes by a white boy while allowing blue haired confused nerds to protest ICE during school hours. Please young parents, do not send your kids to public schools.
Trump is going to lose this one, and we have already lost the country. It was cool to have a brief period of hope, but he killed the coalition by failing to hold anyone accountable and by starting a war.
The good news? Christ died for us on this day, and Sunday is coming. He is risen.
"In hindsight maybe we should not have let our kids watch Mel Brooks movies at a young age (oops)."
Is there an age where a kid should be allowed to watch Blazing Saddles? Yeah, most likely. 😁 BUT, whether or not Brooks would admit this, those shrieking AWFL harpies trying to indoctrinate your son are the reason that Mel Brooks made his comedies to begin with. Mockery is one of the most effective forms of tearing down authoritarians.
I once quoted Mungo from Blazing Saddles (Mungo just a pawn in the game of life) and was reprimanded by someone who told me was brave to quote such a racist movie. I had to inform them that Blazing Saddles was making fun of racism.
I feel like I had a good education in the 1960s and 70s, until I went to college. College was pretty useless from an education point of view and a massive waste of money.
I was in school in the 50’s and 60’s in a smaller agricultural community in SoCA.
I enjoyed it. We had music education in elementary school, and I learned Spanish in elementary, junior high and high school, as well as animal husbandry in high school. (Though that teacher was pretty much of a dim wit.)
And college at a local Community College in the early 70’s was good as well. I learned a lot, had a lot of fun! But that was up in NoCA in Santa Cruz, CA.
I would never send any child I know today (friends or family) to a public school today. No bueno!
Sorry to hear about your MIL’s chronic case of TDS! 😉
Santa Cruz in the early 70s was a mixed bag of hippies, old school ‘liberals’, the surf culture, the old school Santa Cruzans, and the beginnings of
UCSD establishing what would turn out to be its woke, lefty , progressive ‘politics’, which would unalterably change Santa Cruz into what it is today.
I lived there during a beautiful period which imprinted so much on my 19-20 year old young adult self. I was a girl from a conservative, smaller agricultural town in SoCA. My family was ‘conservative Republicans’ for the most part. This was a total new world to me.
I learned about ‘health foods’, alternative holistic healthcare, the chiropractic, acupuncture, Reiki massage, and Rolfing back then. I went to the baths at Esalen in Big Sur in the middle of the night and spent the whole night soaking in mineral bath. I took mushrooms and peyote. It was a soul and mind expanding time for me.
I have changed my thinking politically, but the core things I learned and experienced in Santa Cruz have stayed with me.
What has happened in the USA over the past 50 and especially in the last 25 years since 9/11 is very disheartening and disturbing.
Then then we have 2020 to 2024, the Scamdemic years. That’s when things really went to crap, and people became so unhinged and they don’t understand why. Well if you cram enough fear porn propaganda down their throats on a daily basis, somethings inevitably are going to snap.
Then you have a huge cohort of people who got the EUA mRNA ‘C*V*D injections’, which one of the side effects are cognitive issues in the frontal lobe of the brain, you get the perfect storm for the TDS and the crazy thinking.
Are you familiar with Dr. Michael Nehl’s book “The Indoctrinated Brain”? In it he speaks about what the “C*V*D vaccine” does to the brain.
From Brave AI:
“Dr. Michael Nehls, a German molecular geneticist, claims that both the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are part of a deliberate assault on the human brain, designed to undermine individuality and critical thinking. He argues that the spike protein—present in both the virus and the vaccines—acts as a "bioweapon against the brain", targeting the "mental immune system" and enabling global elites to advance agendas like the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset.
Nehls asserts the vaccines were intentionally designed to cause long-term cognitive harm, calling them part of a "spiking program" that induces neuroinflammation and damages the hippocampus, a brain region crucial for memory and autonomy. According to Nehls, this facilitates a "Great Mental Reset," making populations more susceptible to control. His views, shared in interviews with Tucker Carlson and in his book The Indoctrinated Brain, align with broader conspiratorial narratives and have been promoted by alternative media and anti-vaccine platforms.”
"Trump is going to lose this one, and we have already lost the country."
WHAT??
"he killed the coalition by failing to hold anyone accountable and by starting a war."
WHAT???
1. Lost the country to whom and when exactly did this occur, because as far as I can see, the the Constitutional Republic of America is becoming mightier by the day and at every level there is, to the point of everyone wanting to BE it!
2. You mean holding people accountable in the same courts that have perfected and used "mostly peaceful LAWFARE" against the actual laws and Constitution of those that do not comply with their ideology and/or tactics to solidify that ideology, AND award those that do?
*thinks of the Judge literally helping the illegal immigrant escape out the damn back door
*thinks of Tina Peters being thrown in the klink for actually reporting, with proof, election interference
*thinks of the Judge who let the illegal out the damn doors AFTER being convicted so he can go on to torture and rape an innocent 5 year old
*thinks of all the J6ers, some who weren't even IN that city, being caged up like terrorists
*thinks of ALL the lawfare they put President Trump through, his family, General Flynn, and anyone and everyone who supported him
+++
PERHAPS the Judiciary needs to cleansed of swamp creatures and activist judges BEFORE holding those to account can be done lawfully, legally, and FULLY.
3. President Trump did NOT start a war. He is ending a 47 year long one, as well as already ending 8 others!! With more to come on the horizon, SOON. Ukraine. Taiwan.
4. To date, do tell of ONE thing that President Trump has lost. And bring receipts. And no, I ain't gonna wait, for it is a futile endeavor and I gots better things ta do.
5. Your last line: CORRECT. "HE IS RISEN." Glory Halleluiah, for GOD already won!! And as it is with God, so it is with Trump (on a smaller scale of course), to wit we are all watching how it's all being played out so there can be be NO confusion on ANY of the matters.
Happy Easter, and may you and yours be blessed indeed.
Thanks for your perspective. I don’t see Trump correcting many injustices. He has never admitted that Warp Speed was a disaster and that people were killed and harmed by that vaccine. Therefore, I do not see him as our Republic’s savior.
Warp Speed was about MORE than the vaxx death jab that [THEY] wanted to implement on a world wide scale, AFTER [they] implemented all the things that divided the masses, causing untold harms, especially on OUR CHILDREN.
The RUSH is what saved hundreds of millions because that RUSH caused these batches to be shipped /made/contained/stored at inadequate levels, thus rendering them mute or less than.
President Trump said many times to try alternatives like Ivermectin, DMSO, Dr. Zelenko's Protocol, Hydrachloriquine, etc.
MSM were the ones who said "President Trump told us all to drink bleach!" "President Trump wants us all to take horse paste!"
Don't forget, it was THE PEOPLE who were DEMANDING the vaxx because of the constant deployment of FEAR and DEATH used by the WHO, MSM, Big Pharma, the corrupt health care Fauci, Birx, Colbert, etc.
The vaxx was coming no matter what.
Full Stop.
Warp Speed lessened the damage.
This WILL all come out as the plannedemic hasn't even been addressed yet.
Also, Freedom of Choice plays a factor. For those who were adamant in demanding it, and stupidly continue to take it, have CHOSEN it.
In President Trump's Agenda 47, drug dealers will be dealt with swiftly. ALL drug dealers.
Dr, Molly. He was NOT able to take away the freedom of choice from The People.
They were DEMANDING it!!
He WAS able to lessen the damage because the shots did NOT hold the lethality that [they] wanted.
Did some BAD batches escape into the public?
Obviously.
Could it have been worse? As in WAY worse?
Yes indeed, it could have!!
What would have happened if he had halted the very thing being demanded?
President Trump is only one man.
LOOK at the SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS he has been fighting against and tell me how YOU would have done it to save the many??
Everything is NEVER black and white.
To treat it as such is naïve.
As we ALL know, there are always (they say 3, but I say way more) sides to a story, and unless and until ALL of these sides are made public, bias abounds.
I VERY MUCH appreciate where you are coming from.
I LOVE you for it. It means your heart is YUGE and that you've taken your Oath seriously - To First, Do No Harm.
The TRUTH will out, it always does.
Until then, sometimes walking in another's shoes clarifies a few things. At least on the surface level.
Yesterday (April 2) was the precise date in history when Jesus was arrested, which means that today and Sunday are also the precise dates and days of the week) for the crucifixion and resurrection! This doesn't happen often!
Our nation is falling into the abyss by immigration laws staying unenforced and the "anchor baby" grift continuing to give those who are criminals a free pass into our country as citizens. Why would real citizens think this is okay? Judges and Lawmakers are giving our nation to those who do not deserve it, whatsoever, by laws or traditions which bastardize the real meaning of the 14th amendment and by lack of enforcing real immigration laws.
In 212AD, the Roman Emperor granted citizenship to all within the empire Roman citizenship (a much prized possession by actual Romans, including St. Paul who used it as protection against Jewish mobs) and the rest, as they say, is history.
LONG TIME AGO! Immigration is being used as a tool to divide and weaken nations, especially in Europe and America and Canada. I think it is better for nations to maintain their integrity and identity/culture as they are, because it is better for unity amongst the citizens. All countries benefit from this. And why wouldn't we all desire this as compared to an homogenized world of no distinctions of nationalities. But it has been weaponized and in America the citizens are paying for it in numerous bad ways.
This is an excellent idea. The “anchor baby” business should be outlawed . It clearly explains the birthright dilemma in terms that even Jackson should understand.
Did you actually say that even Jackson should understand?!!!!! Whaaat!????
The Supreme Court judgey (kinda, sort of) who couldn’t/wouldn't define a woman?!
M’kay. Pass the Advil, or crack pipe please. If those aren't handy, a sledgehammer will do the trick.
No offense to you Mary, but Jackson has barely reached midwit status and the wokeness is embedded in the fiber of her very compromised and dimmed out brain! Don't get me started on Roberts or Barrett!
My meaning was that she meets the definition of stupid, dumb, unqualified, obtuse, vacuous, thick headed, daft, brainless, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, cretinous, dense, mindless, snd thick.
It was explained succinctly in oral arguments by the attorney representing the Trump administration. Robert’s said this in response “Counsel, that may be a policy concern, but we’re dealing with the meaning of the Constitution.
The fact that circumstances have changed — that people travel more easily, that there are businesses built around this — doesn’t change what the Fourteenth Amendment says.
It’s a new world, yes, but it’s the same Constitution. And the question is what that language meant when it was adopted.”
Robert’s’ remarks during the arguments do not bode well for common sense carrying the day at the Court.
This is very clear. The 14th amendment did not give automatic citizenship to anyone born here. It was passed after the Civil War in order to give citizenship to freed slaves. (The 14th amendment did not give citizenship to any native Americans. They got citizenship in the 20th century through a law passed by Congress). The guys who actually wrote the 14th amendment discussed who was actually able to get citizenship. If you read their discussions, which are on the federal record, You will see that they clearly describe the two criteria are that you have to be: 1) domiciled in America as a permanent resident and 2) you have to be subject to the jurisdiction of the USA, which means That you have allegiance to the United States of America. This in the discussions at the time was very clear To them that this was only for those who had no citizenship in other countries. Slaves had no other country of allegiance so therefore they could be citizens. Native Americans had allegiance to their own tribes therefore they were not allowed to be citizens.
All of this is a problem because politically we have completely ignored what the 14th amendment actually says. You would think that the Supreme Court would listen to the guys who actually wrote the 14th amendment seeing as they do have their conversations recorded for posterity.
If you want a deep dive into this subject then look up the Attorney Andrew Branca show on YouTube, and he's done a number of wonderful deep dives on this. He even read the whole discussions from the 1800s in Congress. It's shocking we are even having to debate this. Tourist birthright citizenship is clearly not covered!
Thank you for correcting the "less" versus "fewer" stupid laws. As an ex-English teacher that drives me nuts and constantly reminds me how ignorant we are!
Yeah, but “shoulda went” just rolled off our tongues as youngsters, much to my mom’s chagrin. Corrections never failed, and between Mom and my strict (but slyly loving) English teacher in high school, I learned how to speak and write properly.
If we’re being precise, grammatically it should be “fewer stupid laws,” because laws are countable. But if we're being generous, you could read it as “less stupid laws”—as in, the laws themselves would be less stupid (which I can also get behind).
I hope SCOTUS sides with the obviously correct decision that being born here does not automatically grant you citizenship. I also await the legal contortions of Justice Jackson’s dissent.
I'm amazed she got through high school. If there were ever a perfect example of how diversity hires work to weaken and undermine a system that requires merit, she is it.
We watched her word salad analogy on Gutfeld last night- we just looked at each other and said “Huh??!” Apples and oranges, and in no way even touched any side of the issue. Another Kamala.
Totally with you on this one. And to add to the ridiculousness of the citizenship question, I have the opposite problem. I was born in Japan in a US Army hospital while both my parents were Army officers. Yet I have had to prove my USA citizenship for my entire life. And now I'm having to do it again to get a driver's license. And no way in Hell would I be able to be a Japanese citizen despite being born there. I wrote about the duality of our citizenship laws here: https://blissandblisters.substack.com/p/immigration-tangles
My oldest brother and I were born in the US. My middle brother was born in Germany in ‘68 when my dad was stationed there with US Army, but he hasn’t had any trouble like you’re describing.
“Birth tourism” I had no idea that it was a thing. I’m for at least one parent being a citizen in order for the child to be a citizen. My neighbor’s daughter and son-in-law moved to Germany 6 years ago and are now applying for citizenship and have to jump through hoops, have jobs, and make a certain amount of money to qualify. Once they become citizens, any child would become a German citizen, but not until then. Makes sense to me.
I so hear you on this topic , soooo unfair and corrupt. Here’s another angle with anchor babies … no prenatal care and they walk in as a “no doctor on staff” putting everyone at risk especially when you end up with a congenital anomaly ect … The hospital back bills for Medicaid … more of our taxes , hard at work . It’s just not sustainable .
I'm angry about all this medicaid fraud this morning. Because my daughter needs medicaid to live her adult disabled life, and these fraudsters are hurting adults with disabilities when they abuse the system. SOOO my question: since our government loves to employ so many people, how come we can't insist that these employees step away from pushing paper around their desks all the time and get out into the real world and look ALL of these people in the face, and then they'd know who was legit and who was committing fraud?!!! What a radical idea I know... who wants to actually look people in the face 👀 🙄 This could apply to medicaid and to citizenship.
100% Sheila! I'm in the same boat with my own disabled adult son! funny how we have to jump thru hoops all the time (prove he's still disabled, verify the income of everyone in the household, etc). yet if we walked in illegally, seems like stuff is just handed to you, little or no questions asked. it IS infuriating!
As an expats, living half or more of each year in Mexico, I would like to contribute to the conversation. I was born within 20 minutes of downtown Chicago. I lived, worked, and thrived in the US for 45 years. I still pay taxes there every year, 16 years after leaving.
I know many bi-national Mexican Americans that live full time in Mexico. Some have children actually born in Mexico that still attain US citizenship for their Spanish speaking children. They do this, not only for ease of travel, but for benefits. I know there are quite a few more than 10 million such individuals. They got stimulus Covid money that my wife (100% American) never received. We have US Democrat, multi-millionaire Demoncrat (former friends) that bragged on getting 3 stimulus payments, again, while we got zip.
The system is not only broken, it is rigged to produce an ever expanding class of citizens that will vote predominantly for the party that promises the most free stuff. Not good.
Pray for change. This 14th Amendment is one of least fair laws we can have in our modern, digital nomad era. It is as wrong as paying Fauci the biggest government pension ever while spending additional millions for his limousines and Secret Service detail. Some hills are worth dying one, or at least worth fighting for.
My dos centavos.
Appreciate this perspective! Could not agree more.
"“The problem is, when they turn 18, they’re going to be able to vote in the United States. They’re going to be able to contribute to political campaigns and apply for government jobs.”
They’ll also be able to serve on juries, purchase firearms, and serve in the military. So that’s comforting."
CAUTION: Slippery Slope Ahead!!
Q?: how many members of Congress/Senate hold dual citizenship?
A: With one easy answer: nobody knows for sure.
The Hill in 2015 suggested: "The Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress should begin to include citizenship (along with the current listings of party breakdown, age, occupations, education, Congressional service, religion, gender, ethnicity and military service) in its published profiles of each new Congress."
Depending on which search engine one uses, the answer is between 29 and 89, but since these leaders are not 'required' to state as such, most chose not to.
But, the question remains, who are they 'mostly' beholden to when an important vote is on the line?
Lastly, since people born in the land of Palestine, which to date has not been allowed to become a State/Country by the powers that be, these people/victims have no declared citizenship and therefore no rights period.
Interesting times we live.
Some days I wish every day was April 1st.
I found this on Quora.com :
THE US SENATE [13]
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Al Franken (D-MN) Herb Kohl (D-WI) Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) Joseph Lieberman (Independent-CT) Carl Levin (D-MI) Bernie Sanders (Independent-VT) Charles Schumer (D-NY) Ron Wyden (D-OR) Michael Bennet (D-CO)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES [27]
Gary Ackerman (D-NY) Shelley Berkley (D-NV) Howard Berman (D-CA) Eric Cantor (R-VA) David Cicilline (D-RI) Stephen Cohen (D-TN) Susan Davis (D-CA) Ted Deutch (D-FL) Eliot Engel (D-NY) Bob Filner (D-CA) Barney Frank (D-MA) Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) Jane Harman (D-CA) Steve Israel (D-NY) Sander Levin (D-MI) Nita Lowey (D-NY) Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Jared Polis (D-CO) Steve Rothman (D-NJ) Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) Adam Schiff (D-CA) Brad Sherman (D-CA) Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) Henry Waxman (D-CA) Anthony Weiner (D-NY) John Yarmuth (D-KY)
And that’s just the democrats!
Now, I will give you three guesses which "other" country they are "citizens" of, and the first two don't count...
I’m sure it has something to do with following the money.
Love your “dos centavos”! 🙏🏼
If Roberts and Coney-Barrett side with leftist Justices, it’s clear they are compromised. We will find out.
Roberts is definitely compromised. The Obamacare decision exposed that reality
I can think of 2 high profile 'public servants' who are not definitely compromised.
Massie?
and ron johnson. perhaps there are a few more. and others that can be persuaded to behave well if it looks like thats what the group mood is. overall I see no use for a group of overlords at any level telling us how to live our lives. humans have survived for a very long time by overseeing ourselves in small communities. despite the fake history we've all been indoctrinated in.
Massie is a fraud imo. Like MTG turned out to be.
That this is even a conversation is mind bending. In addition to the 14th, there is this little nugget:
Article I, Section 8: The Congress shall have power…to establish a uniform rule of naturalization…
For context, from a friend who is a CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR: “The Framers entrusted Congress with exclusive authority to define how immigrants become citizens. The Naturalization Act of 1790 formalized the process: two years’ residency in the United States, proof of good moral character, and an oath to support the Constitution.”
So…HOW IS THIS EVEN AN ISSUE?? And, KBJ, how is Japan relevant to the conversation? I mean, I love sushi and all, but that doesn’t give me a right to claim Japanese citizenship 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️.
What's actually mind-bending is that Congress would rise to the level of Constitutionally mandated performance, perhaps even more mind-bending than KBJ's confirmation to the SCOTUS after she refused to define a woman.
That was a stain on the Senate. She’s less qualified than a 5 year old.
If the stains on the Senate were visible, they would form a collage.
congress has proven repeatedly that its only there for the pension and the mind bending stock picks and bribes. perhaps we should just disband it and hang a few of the more egregious criminals
Coney-Barrett and Roberts have something in common - adopted children. I'm not knocking adopting children, I'm just pointing out the interesting coincidence.
Barrett’s 2 adoptive kids are from Haiti. Robert’s from Ireland. Ireland restricted adoption of Irish children so somehow Robert’s circumvented the law by adopting them through Latin America. They are now adults.
Barrett seems a lib in R clothing. Her true allegiances show up in her voting. It seems Mitch McConnell told Trump to nominate Barrett when Ruth Ginsberg Bader died. That he’d get her through. Others insiders also, like Pence, Mark Meadows. She clerked for Scalia so it’s understandable that he’d think she may at least lean conservative.
To be honest, Chinese schools are probably not much different from our public schools. The indoctrination in our public schools is alarming. My youngest son graduates (God willing) this year, and it has been a complete nightmare, especially recently. They close schools to do online learning for 1/10th an inch of snow or the threat of a tornado. The teachers are offended by everything, which is unfortunate for my son with his lack of impulse control and dark sense of humor (he was raised by a doctor and a cop). In hindsight maybe we should not have let our kids watch Mel Brooks movies at a young age (oops). They have zero tolerance for any mistakes by a white boy while allowing blue haired confused nerds to protest ICE during school hours. Please young parents, do not send your kids to public schools.
Trump is going to lose this one, and we have already lost the country. It was cool to have a brief period of hope, but he killed the coalition by failing to hold anyone accountable and by starting a war.
The good news? Christ died for us on this day, and Sunday is coming. He is risen.
"In hindsight maybe we should not have let our kids watch Mel Brooks movies at a young age (oops)."
Is there an age where a kid should be allowed to watch Blazing Saddles? Yeah, most likely. 😁 BUT, whether or not Brooks would admit this, those shrieking AWFL harpies trying to indoctrinate your son are the reason that Mel Brooks made his comedies to begin with. Mockery is one of the most effective forms of tearing down authoritarians.
I once quoted Mungo from Blazing Saddles (Mungo just a pawn in the game of life) and was reprimanded by someone who told me was brave to quote such a racist movie. I had to inform them that Blazing Saddles was making fun of racism.
An ex BF of mine, who happened to be black introduced me to that movie. He loved it
The USA seems to have changed since I was a child (and in school).
Oh it has changed a lot, the public “re-education” system.
😢
I feel like I had a good education in the 1960s and 70s, until I went to college. College was pretty useless from an education point of view and a massive waste of money.
I graduated from Loudoun County public schools in 1988 and got a great education. I had no knowledge of the politics or sexuality of my teachers.
Likewise... in school, politics and sexuality did not exist! Teachers were teachers, some excellent, some poor.
I was in school in the 50’s and 60’s in a smaller agricultural community in SoCA.
I enjoyed it. We had music education in elementary school, and I learned Spanish in elementary, junior high and high school, as well as animal husbandry in high school. (Though that teacher was pretty much of a dim wit.)
And college at a local Community College in the early 70’s was good as well. I learned a lot, had a lot of fun! But that was up in NoCA in Santa Cruz, CA.
I would never send any child I know today (friends or family) to a public school today. No bueno!
My MIL went to high school in Santa Cruz. She has TDS, bless her heart. We adore her.
Sorry to hear about your MIL’s chronic case of TDS! 😉
Santa Cruz in the early 70s was a mixed bag of hippies, old school ‘liberals’, the surf culture, the old school Santa Cruzans, and the beginnings of
UCSD establishing what would turn out to be its woke, lefty , progressive ‘politics’, which would unalterably change Santa Cruz into what it is today.
I lived there during a beautiful period which imprinted so much on my 19-20 year old young adult self. I was a girl from a conservative, smaller agricultural town in SoCA. My family was ‘conservative Republicans’ for the most part. This was a total new world to me.
I learned about ‘health foods’, alternative holistic healthcare, the chiropractic, acupuncture, Reiki massage, and Rolfing back then. I went to the baths at Esalen in Big Sur in the middle of the night and spent the whole night soaking in mineral bath. I took mushrooms and peyote. It was a soul and mind expanding time for me.
I have changed my thinking politically, but the core things I learned and experienced in Santa Cruz have stayed with me.
What has happened in the USA over the past 50 and especially in the last 25 years since 9/11 is very disheartening and disturbing.
Then then we have 2020 to 2024, the Scamdemic years. That’s when things really went to crap, and people became so unhinged and they don’t understand why. Well if you cram enough fear porn propaganda down their throats on a daily basis, somethings inevitably are going to snap.
Then you have a huge cohort of people who got the EUA mRNA ‘C*V*D injections’, which one of the side effects are cognitive issues in the frontal lobe of the brain, you get the perfect storm for the TDS and the crazy thinking.
Are you familiar with Dr. Michael Nehl’s book “The Indoctrinated Brain”? In it he speaks about what the “C*V*D vaccine” does to the brain.
From Brave AI:
“Dr. Michael Nehls, a German molecular geneticist, claims that both the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are part of a deliberate assault on the human brain, designed to undermine individuality and critical thinking. He argues that the spike protein—present in both the virus and the vaccines—acts as a "bioweapon against the brain", targeting the "mental immune system" and enabling global elites to advance agendas like the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset.
Nehls asserts the vaccines were intentionally designed to cause long-term cognitive harm, calling them part of a "spiking program" that induces neuroinflammation and damages the hippocampus, a brain region crucial for memory and autonomy. According to Nehls, this facilitates a "Great Mental Reset," making populations more susceptible to control. His views, shared in interviews with Tucker Carlson and in his book The Indoctrinated Brain, align with broader conspiratorial narratives and have been promoted by alternative media and anti-vaccine platforms.”
"Trump is going to lose this one, and we have already lost the country."
WHAT??
"he killed the coalition by failing to hold anyone accountable and by starting a war."
WHAT???
1. Lost the country to whom and when exactly did this occur, because as far as I can see, the the Constitutional Republic of America is becoming mightier by the day and at every level there is, to the point of everyone wanting to BE it!
2. You mean holding people accountable in the same courts that have perfected and used "mostly peaceful LAWFARE" against the actual laws and Constitution of those that do not comply with their ideology and/or tactics to solidify that ideology, AND award those that do?
*thinks of the Judge literally helping the illegal immigrant escape out the damn back door
*thinks of Tina Peters being thrown in the klink for actually reporting, with proof, election interference
*thinks of the Judge who let the illegal out the damn doors AFTER being convicted so he can go on to torture and rape an innocent 5 year old
*thinks of all the J6ers, some who weren't even IN that city, being caged up like terrorists
*thinks of ALL the lawfare they put President Trump through, his family, General Flynn, and anyone and everyone who supported him
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PERHAPS the Judiciary needs to cleansed of swamp creatures and activist judges BEFORE holding those to account can be done lawfully, legally, and FULLY.
3. President Trump did NOT start a war. He is ending a 47 year long one, as well as already ending 8 others!! With more to come on the horizon, SOON. Ukraine. Taiwan.
4. To date, do tell of ONE thing that President Trump has lost. And bring receipts. And no, I ain't gonna wait, for it is a futile endeavor and I gots better things ta do.
5. Your last line: CORRECT. "HE IS RISEN." Glory Halleluiah, for GOD already won!! And as it is with God, so it is with Trump (on a smaller scale of course), to wit we are all watching how it's all being played out so there can be be NO confusion on ANY of the matters.
Happy Easter, and may you and yours be blessed indeed.
Thanks for your perspective. I don’t see Trump correcting many injustices. He has never admitted that Warp Speed was a disaster and that people were killed and harmed by that vaccine. Therefore, I do not see him as our Republic’s savior.
Time will tell, it always does.
Warp Speed was about MORE than the vaxx death jab that [THEY] wanted to implement on a world wide scale, AFTER [they] implemented all the things that divided the masses, causing untold harms, especially on OUR CHILDREN.
The RUSH is what saved hundreds of millions because that RUSH caused these batches to be shipped /made/contained/stored at inadequate levels, thus rendering them mute or less than.
President Trump said many times to try alternatives like Ivermectin, DMSO, Dr. Zelenko's Protocol, Hydrachloriquine, etc.
MSM were the ones who said "President Trump told us all to drink bleach!" "President Trump wants us all to take horse paste!"
Don't forget, it was THE PEOPLE who were DEMANDING the vaxx because of the constant deployment of FEAR and DEATH used by the WHO, MSM, Big Pharma, the corrupt health care Fauci, Birx, Colbert, etc.
The vaxx was coming no matter what.
Full Stop.
Warp Speed lessened the damage.
This WILL all come out as the plannedemic hasn't even been addressed yet.
Also, Freedom of Choice plays a factor. For those who were adamant in demanding it, and stupidly continue to take it, have CHOSEN it.
In President Trump's Agenda 47, drug dealers will be dealt with swiftly. ALL drug dealers.
Dr, Molly. He was NOT able to take away the freedom of choice from The People.
They were DEMANDING it!!
He WAS able to lessen the damage because the shots did NOT hold the lethality that [they] wanted.
Did some BAD batches escape into the public?
Obviously.
Could it have been worse? As in WAY worse?
Yes indeed, it could have!!
What would have happened if he had halted the very thing being demanded?
President Trump is only one man.
LOOK at the SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS he has been fighting against and tell me how YOU would have done it to save the many??
Everything is NEVER black and white.
To treat it as such is naïve.
As we ALL know, there are always (they say 3, but I say way more) sides to a story, and unless and until ALL of these sides are made public, bias abounds.
I VERY MUCH appreciate where you are coming from.
I LOVE you for it. It means your heart is YUGE and that you've taken your Oath seriously - To First, Do No Harm.
The TRUTH will out, it always does.
Until then, sometimes walking in another's shoes clarifies a few things. At least on the surface level.
GO MAHA!!
*Tips hat
MUCH Love
Thank you for responding. It is greatly appreciated.
Yesterday (April 2) was the precise date in history when Jesus was arrested, which means that today and Sunday are also the precise dates and days of the week) for the crucifixion and resurrection! This doesn't happen often!
“1/10 inch of snow and maybe possibly a tornado at some point but we don’t really know” cancels school here in Coastal Virginia. You must be nearby 🤣
Have faith. God protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Our nation is falling into the abyss by immigration laws staying unenforced and the "anchor baby" grift continuing to give those who are criminals a free pass into our country as citizens. Why would real citizens think this is okay? Judges and Lawmakers are giving our nation to those who do not deserve it, whatsoever, by laws or traditions which bastardize the real meaning of the 14th amendment and by lack of enforcing real immigration laws.
In 212AD, the Roman Emperor granted citizenship to all within the empire Roman citizenship (a much prized possession by actual Romans, including St. Paul who used it as protection against Jewish mobs) and the rest, as they say, is history.
LONG TIME AGO! Immigration is being used as a tool to divide and weaken nations, especially in Europe and America and Canada. I think it is better for nations to maintain their integrity and identity/culture as they are, because it is better for unity amongst the citizens. All countries benefit from this. And why wouldn't we all desire this as compared to an homogenized world of no distinctions of nationalities. But it has been weaponized and in America the citizens are paying for it in numerous bad ways.
Did you sends this to the Supreme Court justices for consideration?
This is an excellent idea. The “anchor baby” business should be outlawed . It clearly explains the birthright dilemma in terms that even Jackson should understand.
It's too complicated for Jackson.
Did you actually say that even Jackson should understand?!!!!! Whaaat!????
The Supreme Court judgey (kinda, sort of) who couldn’t/wouldn't define a woman?!
M’kay. Pass the Advil, or crack pipe please. If those aren't handy, a sledgehammer will do the trick.
No offense to you Mary, but Jackson has barely reached midwit status and the wokeness is embedded in the fiber of her very compromised and dimmed out brain! Don't get me started on Roberts or Barrett!
My meaning was that she meets the definition of stupid, dumb, unqualified, obtuse, vacuous, thick headed, daft, brainless, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, cretinous, dense, mindless, snd thick.
Let's throw in gormless while we're at it.
Well, that pretty much sums Jackson up! 💯🔥💥😂🙄
She's an embarrassment to SCOTUS. If she had ever been in any of my classes, she would have failed.
😂 I did say “ should” , not would. I am an optimist at heart.
It was explained succinctly in oral arguments by the attorney representing the Trump administration. Robert’s said this in response “Counsel, that may be a policy concern, but we’re dealing with the meaning of the Constitution.
The fact that circumstances have changed — that people travel more easily, that there are businesses built around this — doesn’t change what the Fourteenth Amendment says.
It’s a new world, yes, but it’s the same Constitution. And the question is what that language meant when it was adopted.”
Robert’s’ remarks during the arguments do not bode well for common sense carrying the day at the Court.
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Nope it was does not
This is very clear. The 14th amendment did not give automatic citizenship to anyone born here. It was passed after the Civil War in order to give citizenship to freed slaves. (The 14th amendment did not give citizenship to any native Americans. They got citizenship in the 20th century through a law passed by Congress). The guys who actually wrote the 14th amendment discussed who was actually able to get citizenship. If you read their discussions, which are on the federal record, You will see that they clearly describe the two criteria are that you have to be: 1) domiciled in America as a permanent resident and 2) you have to be subject to the jurisdiction of the USA, which means That you have allegiance to the United States of America. This in the discussions at the time was very clear To them that this was only for those who had no citizenship in other countries. Slaves had no other country of allegiance so therefore they could be citizens. Native Americans had allegiance to their own tribes therefore they were not allowed to be citizens.
All of this is a problem because politically we have completely ignored what the 14th amendment actually says. You would think that the Supreme Court would listen to the guys who actually wrote the 14th amendment seeing as they do have their conversations recorded for posterity.
If you want a deep dive into this subject then look up the Attorney Andrew Branca show on YouTube, and he's done a number of wonderful deep dives on this. He even read the whole discussions from the 1800s in Congress. It's shocking we are even having to debate this. Tourist birthright citizenship is clearly not covered!
Clarence Thomas is bringing up this exact argument.
Thank you for correcting the "less" versus "fewer" stupid laws. As an ex-English teacher that drives me nuts and constantly reminds me how ignorant we are!
And a great article as usual.
Right? It was my first thought…
Jenna, you need to inform all newscasters in America. Makes my skin crawl…same with “I” and “me.” The education system has failed miserably.
How about “went” and “gone”.
If I hear, I should “have went” one more time….
Or "I seen".
That one too!
Then & than. Ugh
There, They're. Their. (this one makes me wanna thump heads)
Yeah, but “shoulda went” just rolled off our tongues as youngsters, much to my mom’s chagrin. Corrections never failed, and between Mom and my strict (but slyly loving) English teacher in high school, I learned how to speak and write properly.
Laura—that one touches a nerve with me every time.😬
How about “bring” and “take”? I had a friend who constantly corrected me on this. Seems I can’t get it right every time lol
Throw in "lie" and "lay," too.
Yes!
I looked at that and thought it could be totally correct to say less and not mean fewer.
If we’re being precise, grammatically it should be “fewer stupid laws,” because laws are countable. But if we're being generous, you could read it as “less stupid laws”—as in, the laws themselves would be less stupid (which I can also get behind).
I vote for "less AND fewer". 😇
Sounds exhausting! Do you at least get to stop at full retirement age?
So and so ‘had’ their house broken into? What, did they pay someone to do it?
Yes, less and fewer drives me nuts too.
I hope SCOTUS sides with the obviously correct decision that being born here does not automatically grant you citizenship. I also await the legal contortions of Justice Jackson’s dissent.
Or we confuse Jackson into silence. Someone ask her again, "What is a woman?"
I can't believe she even got through Law school, let alone got confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice.
It’s a reflection of the capture of our higher education - two pronged: 1) DEI and 2) promotion of marxists theories.
No wonder the CCP is so engrained in our colleges and citizenry
I'm amazed she got through high school. If there were ever a perfect example of how diversity hires work to weaken and undermine a system that requires merit, she is it.
DEI
Until she comes up with a cogent answer...
That might be never.
We watched her word salad analogy on Gutfeld last night- we just looked at each other and said “Huh??!” Apples and oranges, and in no way even touched any side of the issue. Another Kamala.
We watched as well with the exact reaction!
If she weren't so dangerous as an actual justice, she could do a great stand up comedy routine as a parody of the Left.
Totally with you on this one. And to add to the ridiculousness of the citizenship question, I have the opposite problem. I was born in Japan in a US Army hospital while both my parents were Army officers. Yet I have had to prove my USA citizenship for my entire life. And now I'm having to do it again to get a driver's license. And no way in Hell would I be able to be a Japanese citizen despite being born there. I wrote about the duality of our citizenship laws here: https://blissandblisters.substack.com/p/immigration-tangles
My oldest brother and I were born in the US. My middle brother was born in Germany in ‘68 when my dad was stationed there with US Army, but he hasn’t had any trouble like you’re describing.
I would guess he didn't change his name when he got married. Name changes are apparently difficult for officials to navigate.
"If there were an EXTRA BOLD key, I’d have used it." 🤣🤣
Idea: Perhaps birth citizenship should be dependent upon the citizenship of the parents and not the location of the birth?
That’s just crazy talk🤦♀️
That's what we do around here! We are a wonderful collection of "crazy". 😇
Born in Venezuela, guess what? I was still classified as an American with an American passport, because MY PARENTS WERE AMERICANS!
Thank you Jenna for a great post. Our laws on this definitely need to change. There’s so much fraud.
“Birth tourism” I had no idea that it was a thing. I’m for at least one parent being a citizen in order for the child to be a citizen. My neighbor’s daughter and son-in-law moved to Germany 6 years ago and are now applying for citizenship and have to jump through hoops, have jobs, and make a certain amount of money to qualify. Once they become citizens, any child would become a German citizen, but not until then. Makes sense to me.
have jobs and make a certain amount of money... wow, there's radical thought. ;)
I so hear you on this topic , soooo unfair and corrupt. Here’s another angle with anchor babies … no prenatal care and they walk in as a “no doctor on staff” putting everyone at risk especially when you end up with a congenital anomaly ect … The hospital back bills for Medicaid … more of our taxes , hard at work . It’s just not sustainable .
I'm angry about all this medicaid fraud this morning. Because my daughter needs medicaid to live her adult disabled life, and these fraudsters are hurting adults with disabilities when they abuse the system. SOOO my question: since our government loves to employ so many people, how come we can't insist that these employees step away from pushing paper around their desks all the time and get out into the real world and look ALL of these people in the face, and then they'd know who was legit and who was committing fraud?!!! What a radical idea I know... who wants to actually look people in the face 👀 🙄 This could apply to medicaid and to citizenship.
100% Sheila! I'm in the same boat with my own disabled adult son! funny how we have to jump thru hoops all the time (prove he's still disabled, verify the income of everyone in the household, etc). yet if we walked in illegally, seems like stuff is just handed to you, little or no questions asked. it IS infuriating!
Come on now! Everyone needs more cowbell. The Swiss had a point.
https://youtu.be/cVsQLlk-T0s?si=Hav2JYBRNkPDk4vB&t=58
I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell