The debate over birthright citizenship, explained in 90 seconds

Over the last week, a new debate has been brewing over birthright citizenship, an issue that has been discussed by the 2016 Republican presidential field and elevated during the dispute over illegal immigration.

Birthright citizenship is the legal right for children born in the United States to be granted automatic citizenship, including those born to illegal immigrants.

So what are some of the issues surrounding birthright citizenship, and how are those opposed looking to end it? The Daily Signal explains.

Video edited and produced by Tate Holcombe

Comments

  1. Dudley DoRight. says

    0bama can’t prove he’s a citizen either.

  2. Jim Gilchrist says

    There appears to be little information available about Obama’s childhood, high school years, and his college years. Who were his friends and acquaintances? So much routine information about him has never seemed available.

  3. CPL in SoCal says

    Actually he did. You don’t really think that the FBI missed this when they did his background check; do you? There were too many people watching for any foul play to have taken place. Obama was born in Hawaii, and he did eventually prove it. But he proved a couple of other things when he made public his cert of birth.

    That for years, if not decades, he was lying about being born in Kenya; and did so for most of his life in order to game many US systems.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2146622/Barack-Obama-Kenyan-born-2007-according-literary-agency–months-announcing-bid-U-S-presidency.html

    And; that he has a long and rich history of fabricating situations that glorify himself. My personal favorite was when he told the story about his parents meeting on the Selma bridge during the MLK march and 9 months later, there he was. Oops! The Selma march was in 1965 and; according to his birth certificate, he was born in 1961. Not only did no media whatsoever call him out on that whopper, nobody mentioned that it’s really not very nice to insinuate that your obviously single mother met some guy for the first time that day while at a demonstration, bang’d him in the park or bathroom or wherever, that day, got herself knocked up by that stranger; and here he is, the product from that day’s activity. Selma didn’t bring his parents together; they were officially divorced in 1964 and Obama Sr. was back in Kenya! Obama’s so fullashit!

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/03/04/remembering-selma-barack-obama-and-obamas-weird-selma-mythmaking

  4. Dudley DoRight. says
  5. You said Obama was born in Hawaii? How do you know this? Obama has already stated, accidentally, that he was born in Kenya. Besides that, Obama says he was born in a hospital that did not exist at the time of his birth. How did he get a Connecticut SSN?

  6. No, they are not citizens. Let’s say I robbed a bank and I got away with it for a few years. Did I actually rob the bank then? According to what some are saying about illegals having babies here and that makes them a citizen, then I did not rob a bank.

  7. CPL in SoCal says

    Ron: There are a lot of things that Obama said and did that would indicate that he was not born in Hawaii; including may of his own words. He used the “I was born in Kenya” to get a lot of welfare and benefits and wore his foreign-ness like a badge. He also says that he is black and wears his racism like a badge. However, both are lies. Obama was born in Hawaii and if he were to look at any pictures of his lily white mother & grandparents, he would come in touch with the truth that he so much denies.

    My statement in favor of Obama being born in Hawaii cannot be totally supported and; moreover, I don’t do anything to support Obama. I did not care for him personally when he was running for the office of President; and I gave him an opportunity to prove himself when he won and he has been a failure on almost every level that he said would succeed.

    Back to his birth; Obama has been lying about his birth origin most all of his life, has created stories about it; including his parents meeting on the Selma bridge (as I already mentioned), and used the lie to get special placement in U.S. colleges.

    Obama claiming to being born in Hawaii does not appear to be a very strong one; but those who did the vetting to assure his eligibility for legislature, senate and the presidency did not let this little detail slip by. You know this. It may be fun to hold his feet to the fire about the lies, but Obama was a nobody when the FBI did their first background check(s) on him in the 1990’s and he was born in Hawaii.

    With regard to the hospital that his cert of birth says that he was born in; that hospital dates back to 1884 and was a birthing center in 1890. The hospital has well documented history dating back 2 centuries. The hospital did exist in 1961 when he was born. That one is simple.

    With regard to his cert of birth; you must remember that Hawaii had just become a state less than two years ago at the time of Obama’s birth. Hawaiian birth documentation: that was not Japanese or U.S. military based, was mostly very crude native Hawaiian scribbles and scratches. The cert of live birth is a U.S. govt document that certifies that you were alive when you were born and uses what records are/were available to fill in the blanks.

    With regard to Obama having a Conn soc sec number; I’ve got nothing and there does not seem to be any credible answer out there. In fact the easiest answer to support is that he is using a fake or stolen SSN. I am sure that the answer is in the FBI background check file and if we ever get to read it our response would be “Why didn’t they just tell us that”.

    So; at the end of this conversation, how do I “know” that he was born in Hawaii. Because I trust the work and integrity of those who did the vetting over the course of 10 years and that nobody has come up with anything that reasonably points to anything else in the last 8 years. And lord knows they’ve been looking.

  8. They looked and they found it. I am not going to go into it here, it is much too long. They did not tell us about it because what would happen if it was found that Obama is truly not a US Citizen. By the way, he is not a US citizen, according to the Constitution that is. I know a few things; being a former Counterintelligence Agent and a federal investigator. Nuff said. Obama was born in Kenya, fact.

  9. CPL in SoCal says

    Other than relying on others, who I believe to be credible, I’ve got nothing. If I found out tonight that he actually was born in Kenya, I would not be surprised. Maybe surprised by how well so many people were able to co-conspire over 10+ years, from all over the country, never meeting each other, and still not get caught in a fraud or cover up at this level with so many other high power people looking; but not surprised by Obama not being a U.S. citizen.

  10. then why did obama use a stolen social security number?

  11. MANY PREGNUT WOMEN FROM MEXICO COME TO USA TO HAVE A CHILD AND GET ALL BILLS PAID THEN GO BACK TO MEXICO WITH A US CITIZEN CHILD,THIS IS NOT RIGHT AND SHOULD NEVER BE TOLERATED

  12. CPL in SoCal says

    Do you really think that this slipped by the numerous FBI background checks by the HR Clinton camp in 2008, by all of the congressmen and senators that want him out; and by all of the private independent people who want him out?

    A lot of people with incredible resources were looking for anything to disqualify Obama in 2008 when he started to pull away from HRC. I won’t defend Obama, or support Hillary in any way, ever; but if his soc sec number was actually stolen, action would have taken place in 2008 and HRC would have been the President.

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