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Being part Cherokee, I can only say that I wish my ancestors had adopted this policy.
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I thought Texas seceded? They’re a separate nation now, right? NO?!?!? Awww, damn!
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I had that same dream texass seceded and then to my astonishment came running back with its bow legs tucked between tail its crying that they had messed itself up…
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Born in Texas. The conservative convergence of pro-life and pro-get-the-fuck-out.
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I’ll bet every single person responsible for this outrageousness has yelled about how Obama doesn’t respect the Constitution. Every single one.
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20/20 hindsight - if Obama had been born in Texas in 2015, would he even have a birth certificate?!!!?!!Question!
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The Constitution is OK. It’s all those damned amendments that ruined the party for the proper white folk that are the problem.
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To deny a birth certificate to an American citizen because of his or her parents is about as unamerican as you can get.
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So true, it distracts from celebrating what it truly means to be an American. Killing unarmed black people and buying lottery tickets in the hope of becoming one of the 1% that owns 90% of the nation’s wealth.
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Except for the 10th Amendment. That one, when taken literally, is sacred to those people.
There’s nothing in the Constitution that specifically mentions Mexican anchor babies, so according to the 10th Amendment, it’s OK for Texas to deny birth certificates to them, see?
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Shorter Texas: everything was so much simpler when we all “understood” what was “right” and “those” people knew their place.
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Especially the Second.
Great. I felt like Texas had too many tax dollars, now that oil prices are going back up again. Good to know we can funnel that to legal bills instead.
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This is what’s so ridiculous about all the conservatives who rant about Obama inventing his own rules, since according to the conservative model of doing things, individual government employees now get to set whatever rules they want. And so if you feel like it’s wrong to issue marriage licenses or birth certificates, you don’t have to and you don’t even have to make it official public policy. You just get to do whatever the hell you want, and only an “illegitimate power-grabbing” judge can stop them.
So when Obama uses his official executive powers to do the same things previous presidents have done, that’s outrageous and unconstitutional. But when no-name conservatives secretly change how citizenship works, that’s just how it’s supposed to be done.
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14th Amendment, Section 1: “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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
I don’t see how denying the child of an illegal immigrant a birth certificate can be reconciled with that section. It’s time for Texas to get back to governing by the Constitution.
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What does the kind of identification available to a parent have to do with the issuing of a birth certificate to an infant born on US soil? You can put whatever you want in the section about the parents, but the certificate is about the kid, who is an american citizen.
What surprises me just a little is that this is going forward as a civil matter. I can think of a bunch of federal laws that could be applicable here, including falsification of medical records and conspiracy to deprive a person of civil rights under color of law. Whoever is responsible for vital statistics in Texas has apparently been signing off on deliberately falsified reports to the federal government.
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Please go donate to the Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid! I did!
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Vermonters (who are very picky about who gets to call themselves a Vermonter), say, of people born in VT of out-of-state parents: “Just cuz a cat has kittens in the oven don’t make 'em muffins.”
For all their dramatic differences, VT and TX are similar in lots of ways.
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