Rep. Nathan Deal Reintroduces Bill to End Birthright Citizenship

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The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009 (H.R.1868) was introduced by Congressman Nathan Deal (R-GA). The bill would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the bill, a person born in the United States gains citizenship if one of the person's parents is:

a citizen or national of the United States;
an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States whose residence is in the United States; or
an alien performing active service in the armed forces.

The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009 (H.R.1868) was introduced by Congressman Nathan Deal (R-GA). The bill would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the bill, a person born in the United States gains citizenship if one of the person's parents is:

a citizen or national of the United States;
an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States whose residence is in the United States; or
an alien performing active service in the armed forces.

The bill had 40 original cosponsors.

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Monday, May 18, 2009, 5:13 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

Rep. Nathan Deal

Congressmen Who...

Sponsored the Birthright Citizenship Act
Updated Thursday, February 4, 2010, 11:04 AM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

Total 91 Sponsors

(AL) Bachus
(AL) Bonner
(AL) Griffith
(AL) Rogers
(AZ) Franks
(AZ) Shadegg
(AR) Boozman
(CA) Bilbray
(CA) Calvert
(CA) Campbell
(CA) Herger
(CA) Hunter
(CA) Issa
(CA) Lungren
(CA) McClintock
(CA) McKeon
(CA) Milner
(CA) Rohrabacher
(CA) Royce
(CO) Coffman
(CO) Lamborn
(GA) Broun
(GA) Deal
(GA) Gingrey
(GA) Kingston
(GA) Linder
(GA) Price
(GA) Westmoreland
(FL) Bilirakis
(FL) Mica
(FL) Posey
(FL) Stearns
(IL) Manzullo
(IL) Roskam
(IN) Burton
(IN) Pence
(IN) Souder
(IA) King
(KS) Moran
(KS) Tiahrt
(KY) Davis
(KY) Whitfield
(LA) Alexander
(LA) Fleming
(MD) Bartlett
(MI) McCotter

(MI) Miller
(MI) Upton
(MN) Kline
(MS) Taylor
(MO) Akin
(MO) Graves
(NE) Fortenberry
(NE) Smith
(NV) Heller
(NJ) Garrett
(NY) King
(NC) Coble
(NC) Foxx
(NC) Jones
(NC) Myrick
(OH) Jordan
(OK) Sullivan
(PA) Murphy, T.
(PA) Pitts
(PA) Platts
(PA) Shuster
(SC) Barrett
(SC) Brown
(SC) Wilson
(TN) Duncan
(TN) Wamp
(TX) Brady
(TX) Burgess
(TX) Carter
(TX) Conaway
(TX) Culberson
(TX) Gohmert
(TX) Hall
(TX) Hensarling
(TX) Johnson
(TX) Marchant
(TX) Neugebauer
(TX) Olson
(TX) Poe
(TX) Sessions
(TX) Smith
(UT) Chaffetz
(VA) Forbes
(VA) Goodlatte
(VA) Wittman

Official H.R. 1868 cosponsor list

Rep. Nathan Deal (R-GA) reintroduced his Birthright Citizenship bill that would eliminate automatic citizenship for children born in the United States. The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009 (H.R.1868) would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make it more difficult for children born in the U.S. to gain citizenship.

Under the proposed legislation, a person born in the United States, in order to gain citizenship, must have at least one parent who is:

a U.S. citizen or national;
a lawful permanent resident alien whose residence is in the United States; or
an alien performing active service in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Rep. Deal's bill has 40 original cosponsors.

The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009 is one of five bills that are endorsed by NumbersUSA. To see a list of these bills and their current sponsors, see the grid on the proposed bills page.

Visit your Action Buffet for faxes thanking your Congressman for sponsoring H.R.1868 or urging them to sign on if they haven't already done so.

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Ga. congressman wants to end automatic citizenship

Quoted - Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, a group that favors restricting immigration, said the policy of granting automatic citizenship to people born here is "out of sync with the modern world." He and Deal said that the U.S. is one of the few wealthy industrialized nations that still allows birthright citizenship.

Deal, who has submitted his bill to the House Judiciary Committee, said he's not optimistic about it becoming law this year unless it is tacked onto another bill.

By Kate Brumback -- Associated Press

http://www.macon.com/220/story/726853.html

A birthright the U.S. can't afford

In the News - Monday, July 20, 2009

In his July 15 column "Immigration debacle," Tim Rutten uses Americans' natural reluctance to deport illegal immigrant parents of U.S.-born children as a weapon to attack efforts at immigration enforcement. Nothing new there. In his dissent to the majority ruling in United States vs. Wong Kim Ark -- the 1898 Supreme Court decision affirming that birth in the United States automatically confers citizenship -- Chief Justice Melville Fuller foresaw how this "birthright" would hinder enforcement of immigration law:

"[C]an the persons expelled be subjected to 'cruel and unusual punishments' in the process of expulsion, as would be the case if children born to them in this country were separated from them on their departure, because citizens of the United States?"

By Mitchell Young -- Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-oew-young20-2009jul20,0,6370949.story

Most U.S. Hispanic Kids Have Immigrant Parents

In the News - Friday, May 29, 2009

A majority of Hispanic children are now U.S.-born children of immigrants, primarily Mexicans who came to this country in an immigration wave that began about 1980, according to a report released yesterday.

The analysis of census data by the nonpartisan, Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center charts a substantial demographic shift among the nation's 16 million Hispanic children, who constitute one of the fastest growing child populations in the United States and account for more than one of five U.S. children. As recently as 1980, nearly six of 10 Latino children were in the third generation or higher, meaning that their parents, and often their grandparents and great-grandparents, were native-born U.S. citizens. Only three of 10 were in the second generation -- born in the United States to parents who immigrated.

By N.C. Aizenman -- Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052801506.html

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