Legislators from 40 states seek to deny citizenship to some babies born here,

[pnwmom]

including some babies born to two U.S. citizens, according to Democrats for Progress.

http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2011/02/09/arizona-meanies-dont-have-votes-on-birthright-citizen-bills/#more-1942

State Legislators for Legal Immigration, a group started by Pennsylvania State Rep. Daryl D. Metcalfe (R-Butler), is pushing this “Compact,” and lists 40 “Participating States.” Apparently, all it takes for a state to be so defined is a single lawmaker in the state to join up. Metcalfe himself is the only legislator listed for Pennsylvania. In New York State, for another example, Brewster Senator Greg Ball is the sole participant, but it’s enough to make New York a “Participating State.” God forbid.

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Earlier this month, a group of officials calling themselves State Legislators for Legal Immigration unveiled proposed legislation to deny state citizenship to children borne by illegal immigrants — and, for that matter, many foreigners residing here with the full blessing of our laws.

It says that to be a citizen of a given state, someone must be born here and have at least one parent who “owes no allegiance to any foreign sovereignty.” By a strict reading, it would exclude the children of many naturalized citizens who retain citizenship in their native lands (as allowed in Canada, Britain and Israel, among others). It would also bar those born to foreigners here on student visas — or even permanent resident aliens.

The group claims to support “legal immigration.” But this measure would punish the legal along with the illegal. A child could be born here, have two U.S. citizen parents and still be deprived of state citizenship.

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[HopeHoops]

1. Unless someone can claim 100% Native American heritage, they're hypocrites for supporting this.

And granted, even Native Americans immigrated here at some point in the distant past, but they're the closest the land has to an indigenous people.

[pnwmom]

2. True enough. They're all hypocrites anyway,

in too many ways to count.

[barbiegeek]

3. Would it be retro active? Affecting 10yrs?

So if your born in Pennsylvania but move to another state how does that work.