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Mike Church Letter to Editors of National Review
EVERYONE seems to be stuck on the "...if an illegal alien plops a kid out 2 inches inside the American / Mexican border than that kid is a CITIZEN, everyone would include the Editors of the Prestigious National Review Magazine. Now I don't carry the weight of any of the Nationally Syndicated REAL TALK SHOW HOSTS who can say "C is the first letter in the word Conservative!" and the editors of Conservative magazines and blogs literally faint from the brilliance of that sentence and can be heard panting all the way down here in Louisiana. This letter will mark the FIFTH that I've sent in the year that is 2007 to these publications. It's so ostracizing, we don't even get ".... thanks for writing, however..." letters. Nope just the "you aren't Mike Gallagher" cold shoulder. So I guess I'll keep writing and just be satisfied with publishing the letters here. Maybe you Dudes can pass the letter along to your friends and that will be just as meaningful as getting my face "On the cover of the Rolling Stone!". The Letter: 19 May, 2007 The Editors National Review Online Sirs, I enjoy reading National Review Online, it helps me to believe that I am not misplaced on the planet Liberalon most days. Your Editorial titled “Bipartisan Fantasy” contains an item that needs to be addressed so that your readers and, hopefully, the illegals they may come in contact with will understand the “anchor baby” myth. “In addition to granting immediate legal status to 12 million illegal aliens, the Bush-Kennedy plan provides for 400,000 temporary workers a year. They are permitted to stay two years... in the imaginary world of the plan’s supporters, they will be summarily rounded up and swiftly deported if they overstay their visas — even if, while they are here, they have children, who will be citizens at birth.” It is the “...citizens at birth” statement that I am concerned about. You see, a careful reading of the 14th Amendment to our Constitution and the debate that it generated before and AFTER passage make this claim, and tens of thousands of real world claims like it, false. This is borne out both in Supreme Court (Elk vs Wilkins, 1884) precedent and lower court case law. Senator Jacob Howard of Michigan said the amendment required that citizenship could only be conferred to people born of parents “subject to the jurisdiction [of The United States] thereof”. His colleague Senator Doolittle went further stating "Subject, first, to its military power; second, subject to its political power; third, subject to its legislative power." Senator Howard also asked whether the United States could compel an illegal alien to serve on Jury Duty, vote in an National Election or serve in it’s military? The answer to all those questions is an unqualified “no”. This is because an illegal alien still owes his allegiance, thus citizenship, to the sovereign of his naturalization. Do the illegal alien parents of children born in America officially renounce their loyalty or citizenship of this country? After passage of the 14th Amendment Senator James K. Kelly presented the Senate with an example of the Amendment’s usage. A man was born in Astoria Oregon during the time it was a British territory/colony. The man had asked to be recognized as a U.S. citizen after Oregon’s admission to the Union. His request was denied on the basis that the U.S. could no more confer citizenship on him then could Britain confer citizenship on Americans just across the border from their territories in Canada. The man was born a subject of the King of Great Britain and would remain so until he renounced his citizenship and applied for ours. There are many other cases from this time period and volumes of recorded debate on the 14th Amendment that leave no doubt as to it’s meaning. Congress cannot by statute simply overturn or overrule this Amendment no more than they can the second Amendment (though they certainly have tried!). Conservatives must do a better job explaining these documents and the rule of natural law to our young people to promote a better understanding of this and other Constitutional issues. The same documents may seem archaic and useless to liberals but we know better. Only through this continuing education can the tide of “anchor baby” citizenship be abated and then reversed. The Framers of the Constitution and the drafters of the 14th Amendment deserve as much. Mike Church Host of “The Mike Church Show” Heard daily on Sirius Satellite Radio’s “Patriot” channel tel 985-867-1774 |
