GOP's McConnell on Birthright Citizenship: No One Wants to Alter 14th Amendment

McConnell shpuld b e voted out, Napolitano should b e fired. The 14th has no place in todays America. This is old crap. Most of the people in Washington shpuld be voted out.

My neice had a baby in Okinawa which was shown as a Japanese citizen. Was born on a Navy base (husband was Army) and they had a hard time changing citizenship to American. That was about 17 years ago, so we aren't the only ones you had thier version on the 145h amendment. To the person who said about the second amendment and the "comma" in it, there are 3 commas in it, however, I did hear BBC America state there was only one. Check the Patriot Act for getting rid of our rights.

Senator McConnell is wrong. Many people are advocating amending the 14th amendment to require that children have at least one American citizen as a parent. We are sick and tired of pregnant women crossing the border so that they can have their baby on American ground and leave the taxpayers to pay for it.

A lot of talk is about those who are illegal immigrants delivering a child while in the United States, then the child having citizenship. Now where does the child then bestow citizenship on the parents. If one parent is a natural born citizen of the United States and the other isn't, the child is a citizen. No where does the Constitution state that the parents have to be married; just that one should be a citizen. No argument. Right? How about all the illegitimate children produced by all of our servicemen overseas? Don't those children also have a Constitutional Right to come to the United States and avail themselves of their rights as a citizen?

There is not reason for him distance himself from his comments. The majority of people want legal immigrants to take advantage of all that comes with being a citizen of the U.S. It should not be the other way around.

I think the American Indians would be satisfied to send him back across the sea as the child of immigrants somewhere down the line, most likely not approved of by the natives

Few, if any, countries in the world grant citizenship simply by being born within there borders.

In 1857 the US was still in "Manifest Destiny" and needed people to populate the country although the 14th amendment was passed to deal with the issue of slavery.
Many from all over the world travel to the US to have babies and gain US citizenship for their children. Will these children now be covered by Obamacare??? Katie bar the door cause here they come.

Why not use "international law" as inspiration to "clarify" the 14th amendment to protect US sovereignty and most importantly, the US taxpayer, since most who travel here to have their baby and gain US citizenship, do so for the "benefits".

Based on this half-stepping answer, one must wonder how Palin would describe McConnell's cojones.

If they would build a fence to keep the illegals out, this issue would go away. Meanwhile, the government could simply declare one delivery room in each hospital as being non-American property and have the kid born there. Just the opposite of having an embassy in a foreign country being declared property of that foreign country. Then the kid would not have been born in the US, would not be a citizen. The point being is that a lot of people are getting sick and tired of this game. That we are supposed to shut up and pay while everyone else takes advantage of us.

He made no mistake. He's speaking for his constituents. They just don't like to be called the "R" word. And it gets harder and harder each day for them to run from the association. God bless America, even those who know not what they do.