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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 03:03 PM
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8. Coulter is dead wrong. This issue was decided in an 1898 Supreme Court decision
In US v Wong Kim Ark, a 6-2 decision, the Court held that under the Fourteenth Amendment, a child born in the United States is a US Citizen, regardless of the nationality of parents. The sole exceptions are children of foreign diplomats, and those who are members of foreign forces in hostile occupation of United States territory, along with members of sovereign Native American tribes. Native Americans who were not already U.S. citizens were granted citizenship in 1924 by an Act of Congress.
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