Glen Beck: We are the only nation that grants automatic citizenship to those born here

[AlexanderProgressive]

But he was wrong. VERY wrong, as reported by Politifact.com

Here's the full list:

Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Azerbaijan
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Colombia
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Fiji
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Jamaica
Lesotho
Mexico
Nicaragua
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Romania
Saint Christopher and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Uruguay
Venezuela

[WeDidIt]

1. HA!, So McCain Had Dual citizenship at birth, too!

HA!

[SoCalDem]

3. So did my brother. He was born off-base

in Panama. I remember the doctor saying he was a US citizen, but could never be president, since he was born outside the Canal Zone.And when he was 18, he could choose which citizenship he wanted.

[roguevalley]

15. call me simple but being born some place makes you a citizen.

my aunts who were canadians and my grandparents who were american can attest to that.

[Dappleganger]

2. What a tool.

[realisticphish]

4. I will say, though

that it's interesting that we are one of the few major powers on that list. I wonder why :shrug:

and I don't mean that facetiously, I really am curious

[TimesSquareCowboy]

9. It seems like it's mostly Western Hemisphere countries that were

colonized and ruled by the colonizers on independence, so they had to grant citizenship to anyone born there otherwise there wouldn't be many citizens. Just a guess.

[realisticphish]

11. that's a good point

Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, yeah that makes sense.

[AlexanderProgressive]

12. Canada is there

That's about it. But we shouldn't simply go around immitating other countries like monkeys for the fun of it, IMO.

[rvablue]

14. I found that interesting, too. No England, France, Germany, Spain. Strange? n/t

[BOSSHOG]

5. Okay Alexander you wait just one second

glen beck has conservative values and can cry at the drop of a hat so there's no way he can be wrong about anything.

Allow me an off the wall question. Christians say life begins at conception. bobby jindal was conceived (born??) outside the United States, his mother gave "birth" to him in this country. If life begins at conception how could he be an american citizen? Grasping at straws? Trying to rationalize the christian mind?

[marmar]

6. He could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the earth......

...... Sean Hannity and John Gibson might disagree.

:dunce: :dunce: :dunce:

[louis-t]

7. Jeez, can't these assholes get ANYTHING right?

:shrug:

[fascisthunter]

8. it's safe to say that anyone who just believes what that guy says, is a moron

[NewJeffCT]

10. Obviously, to Glen Beck, the world is just the US and Western Europe

anybody else is a non-white outsider.

[sakabatou]

13. What do you expect?

The guys at FIxed Noise don't know what research is.

[steelmania75]

Fucking moron

[spanone]

16. stupid is as stupid says

[old mark]

17. PROOF!!!!

that Glen Beck really is incredibly stupid. It is hard to believe that someone so out of touch with reality actually has a job.


mark

[Are_grits_groceries]

18. His parents have got to be named

Black and Decker.

[DFW]

19. Wrong---BUT...............

We ARE the only nation that tolerates the likes of Glenn Beck on our airwaves (since 1945, anyway).

[treestar]

20. Sometimes we even extend it to those who weren't born here

Any US citizen who grew up in the US and goes abroad can pass that citizenship to their child born abroad.

The Irish even include grandchildren of their emigrants.

A country that did not extend citizenship to all born in it risks creating stateless people or a population on potentially alienated people who are there but not part of the body politic.

Do the likes of Beck even realize that? Do they want this country to have a large population of people who aren't citizens? That would be suicidal as a nation.

And some of them would marry citizens and have families. Does Beck want to create a lot of legal questions that just aren't worth figuring out?

It's no big deal to extend the citizenship to everyone born here. Well, except to white supremacists.

[krispos42]

21. Jus soli, Beck

You wanna change that, go amend the Constitution.

[tanyev]

22. He should be counting his blessings.

It's hard to obtain citizenship if you're certifiable.

[Regret My New Name]

23. That guy always says shit that's wrong...

Have to wonder if he knows he is wrong though...

[napi21]

24. You don't have Ja[an on the list, and I KNOW they do because

two of my SIL's kids were born in Japan while their father was in the Marines. Both of them have auto dual citizenshiip until they're 21!

[KamaAina]

25. FAIL.

:P