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Wong Kim Ark was wrongly decided.
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_22_2/tsc_22_2_buchanan.shtml
This is a brilliant article. Open borders proponents like Lee and Mitchell Holman won't read it. It's long and complex, and like all extremist ideologues, they prefer cheap easy fiction (lies). Neither Lee nor Holman will read this piece. They just don't have either the stamina or the intellectual honesty. While both of them get Trump exactly right, they get *a lot* about their own side exactly wrong.
Justice Horace Gray, the author of Wong Kim Ark, simply got it wrong — entirely.
He ignored over a century of American statutory law that completely *broke* with
the common law, and he ignored prior Supreme Court decisions — including one of
his own — that correctly interpreted the citizenship clause.
Prediction: if they reply at all, Mitchell Holman and Lee, the two most notorious open borders advocates here, will simply revert to their long-demolished arguments about the fictional "problems" associated with /jus sanguinis/ (citizenship by descend). The fact is, there are *no* inherent problems with /jus sanguinis/. They are a figment of Lee's and Mitchell's fevered imaginations. *Every* European country — 100% of them — has /jus sanguinis/ as its fundamental citizenship law. You're a citizen at birth of a European *only* if one or both of your parents are citizens of that country. If Somali or Argentine or Canadian parents give birth to a child in, say, Germany, that child is not a citizen of Germany. Before marking "German" on a newborn's identity documents, the German authorities first determine if one of the child's
parents is a German citizen. If neither parent has German citizenship, then the child doesn't. It's that simple.
That's how it should be here.
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