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Alice Frantz, Ph.D.'s avatar

Chris,

Mark Levin had an interesting in depth look at the 14th Amendment on one of his Jan. 2025 weekend tv programs on FOX. There is a clause in the 14th Amendment ("and subject to the jurisdiction thereof") & a history to that clause that makes it questionable if it applies to illegal aliens. I had mixed "feeings" about it anyway before listening to Mark Levin, but there may well be a legal argument against birthright citizenship for illegal aliens.

Now I think there are "legal considerations" which the Supreme Court needs to evaluate. Perhaps that is what President Trump hoped for in the first place. Chris, I think watching Mark Levin's Jan. 2025 weekend tv program about it will give you another legal perspective, particularly if you are an "originalist" Constitutional supporter. I had no idea that it was trying to correct something--I had no

idea it was trying to make sure former slaves in the USA would have the right

to citizenship--a worthy cause indeed.

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Mark Gennarelli's avatar

So the mayor unplugged Shotspotter because he said it was active in neighborhoods that were mostly minorities causing a disproportionate number of police response.

This mayor, a democrat appears to be against having the police protect all the citizens of the city.

In my opinion Shotspotter is a realtime community Police response. A good thing overall. Sounds like if this proactive tool was used in predominately White neighborhoods, the mayor would be outraged.

Let’s face it, the mayor is a regressive dysfunctional leader who has failed in his #1 mission, Public Safety.

🤡🔥

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Frank Canzolino's avatar

To me, nothing says Chicago like taking out the garbage and tripping over a dead body…

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Mark Gennarelli's avatar

I’m going to brush up on the 14 Amendment.

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Mark Gennarelli's avatar

After a quick scan of the 14 Amendment, Aliens, legal or illegal have due process rights.

Ok. Take this on a case by case basis.

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mary a silvati's avatar

Agree with Alice France that birthright citizenship was adopted for the slave's children as Mark explained. There were apparently 50,000 pregnant Chinese women who came here to have their babies in order to gain their citizenship and then went back to China. This was reported on Fox News sometime ago--maybe under the Obama regime. At any rate this should be looked at and defined asap. Maybe we need an amendment if they are afraid to step up. Disappointed in Roberts (a lot) and Barrett. The other problem is Chain Migration.

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Mark Gennarelli's avatar

Time to utilize Gitmo 🇺🇸♥️🤍💙🇺🇸

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