Calif. Congressman Duncan Hunter supports deporting US-born children of illegal immigrants
By APThursday, April 29, 2010
US rep backs deport of illegal immigrants’ US kids
SAN DIEGO — Rep. Duncan Hunter said he would support deporting U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, adding that “it takes more than walking across the border” to be an American citizen.”
The San Diego-area Republican congressman spoke Saturday at a video recorded tea party rally in Ramona. Hunter was asked by someone in the crowd if he backed deporting natural-born American citizens who are the children of illegal immigrants.
“I would have to, yes,” Hunter said.
Hunter said in the video that some of his critics believe his stance is mean-spirited.
“And we’re not being mean. We’re just saying it takes more than walking across the border to become an American citizen,” he said. “It’s what’s in our souls.”
The 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizenship to all persons born in the United States.
Hunter’s spokesman Joe Kasper said Thursday that the congressman’s position is that U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants should stay with their parents unless there is a legal guardian who could take care of them.
“It was a short answer to a complex issue,” Kasper said. “His terms have been very specific on this topic and it wasn’t reflected in the answer.”
Hunter’s comments on Saturday were recorded and posted on YouTube. Kasper said the event was open to the media and reporters were there.
Hunter also supports a House bill that calls for the elimination of automatic birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants. It is unclear whether the bill would be constitutional.
Hunter supports a recently signed Arizona law, which requires local and state law enforcement to question people about their immigration status if there’s reason to suspect they’re in the country illegally. He called the law a “fantastic starting point.”
On the Net:
— Rep. Duncan Hunter on YouTube: tiny.cc/jlyso
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April 30, 2010: 1:44 pm
Instead of occupying a seat in Congress, Congressman Duncan Hunter should be sweeping the streets of Alpine, California. Hunter is another impostor, another moron among many in Washington DC, inflicting unnecessary pain, and suffering on fellow Americans. The law clearly states that persons born in the United States of America including the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands are automatically granted U.S. citizenship. And there is another law, which is far greater than all manmade laws put together, which is brotherly love, the law that does not harm ones neighbors, but it does them good. Only cruel morons would separate innocent American children from their parents, therefore the parents of these children must be granted full citizenship, and everyone will discover to their utter dismay, that it will not cause the world to end. People like congressman Hunter are devoid of common sense, they are full of cruelty, full of greed, full of contempt, they are self serving, infantile, vulgar, arrogant, boastful, lacking humility and compassion. They consider themselves Americans because they were born in America, but in reality they act, speak and carry on like foreigners, they are the real aliens, because they do not have what it takes to be real Americans. |
Henry