What do you think about the Arnold Law? California is trying to get a law passed so unnatural born citizens can run for president after they have lived here for so many years. This way Arnold can run for president. Do you agree or disagree?
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ABSOLUTLY NOT.  One's loyalty to the USA should never be weighed against the native nation of the president.  Last thing we need is either a manchurian candidate, or a president who is second guessed because of their nationality.
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The answer is yes they are giving auto citizenship until otherwise they disown or renos it.\nSorry wrong one, 14th amendment\n\nThe several bills and resolutions now before Congress that would deny citizenship to children born in the United States to certain classes of alien parents raise various issues of law and policy. My testimony today will address two points of constitutional law. First, because the rule of citizenship acquired by birth within the United States is the law of the Constitution, it cannot be changed through legislation, but only by amending the Constitution. A bill such as H.R. 1363, 104th Cong. (1995), the "Citizenship Reform Act of 1995," that purports to deny citizenship by birth to persons born within the jurisdiction of this country is unconstitutional on its face. Second, the proposed constitutional amendments on this topic conflict with basic constitutional principles. To adopt such an amendment would not be technically unlawful, but it would flatly contradict our constitutional history and our constitutional traditions. Affirming the citizenship of African-Americans that Dred Scott had denied, in 1862 President Lincoln's Attorney General wrote an opinion for the Secretary of the Treasury asserting "[a]s far as I know . . . you and I have no better title to the citizenship which we enjoy than the 'accident of birth' -- the fact that we happened to be born in the United States." (5) Today, in 1995, we cannot and should not try to solve the difficult problems illegal immigration poses by denying citizenship to persons whose claim to be recognized as Americans rests on the same constitutional footing as that of any natural-born citizen. Members of both of your Subcommittees have worked vigorously, with the Department of Justice on an evenhanded bipartisan basis, on legislation and oversight to address these problems.\n\nI.\n\n\n       H.R. 1363, the "Citizenship Reform Act of 1995," exemplifies the various legislative proposals before the committees. The stated purpose of the bill is "to deny automatic citizenship at birth to children born in the United States to parents who are not citizens or permanent resident aliens." Section 3(a) of the bill amends section 301(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which grants U.S. citizenship "at birth" to all persons "born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." Specifically, section 3(a) proposes to define the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" to include only children born to U.S. citizens or permanent resident aliens.\n\nthe Supreme Court held that a child born in San Francisco of Chinese parents (who, under the Chinese Exclusion laws then in effect, could never themselves become U.S. citizens) became at the time of his birth in the United States a citizen of the United States, by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment.\n\n       The Court, in a detailed review of the Anglo-American common law of citizenship and the legislative history of the Fourteenth Amendment, established several propositions. First, because the Constitution does not define United States citizenship, it must be interpreted in light of the common law. Under the common law of England, which was adopted by the United States, every child born within the territory of alien parents was a natural-born subject, with the exception of children born of foreign ambassadors, of alien enemies during hostile occupation, and of aliens on a foreign vessel.
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That the Congress is now wanting to give amnesty to all these people. I think there is a hidden agenda there and I think it will undermine the present midleclass. I live in AZ and see the jobs construction jobs these persons are taking that most of us couldn't live on. Now there is a push for minority small business owners, painters, stucco, roofing etc looking for bilingual persons to run crews of these people putting many of us oit of work.
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http://www.alipac.us/article-1242-thread-1-0.html\n\nThe US Senate could go to a vote any day or hour now on S. 2611 which \ncontains amnesty for both illegal aliens currently in the US and for \nemployers that have broken the law hiring them.\n\n\n\nSenator Sessions says S. 2611 to bring 217.1 million new immigrants in 20 years    http://www.alipac.us/article1223.html\n\n\n\n\n\nGOOD NEWS\n\n1.  This bill is so full of amendments now that neither side really \nlikes it increasing the chances it will fail.  If it does pass, the \npoliticians that voted for it will face even more opposition from the voters \nfrom both sides of the issue!\n\n2.  If they pass S. 2611 the fight is not over yet so do not get \ndiscouraged.  It still has to pass our House lawmakers.  Also, there are \nbenefits from a Senate vote that passes this amnesty bill.  On one hand, it \nwill allow us to determine exactly who we need to target for removal in \nthe elections.  On the other hand, passage of S. 2611 will INCREASE THE \nELECTORAL BACKLASH on this issue.\n\n3.  Even if the Guest Worker amnesty program is passed into law, it \ncontains a fatal flaw.  It does not grant instant amnesty.  This will \nallow time for the majority of American citizens to assert their influence \nover the lawmaking process through the elections.  If signed into law \nby George Bush, we will immediately announce our intent to seize \npolitical control of the program, remove any citizenship plans, and use it as \nan effective targeted deportation tool for illegal aliens that do not \nreturn to their home nations on their own volition.
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DEFINITELY should tighten up the laws concerning child molesters -- these are monsters in every sense of the word -- and just letting them out with little restrictions on their behaviors is a recipe for DISASTER -- and the Disaster is the continuance of the Molesting Behaviors in the future.\n\nNot only should California Tighten up these laws, but I have another Suggestion for California:\n\nHOW ABOUT if CALIFORNIA tightens up it's Child Support Enforcement Laws too!  My Ex-Spouse ABUSED my children, and was not just able to continue contact with the children (which disgusts me to begin with -- stupid California "justice") -- but he then was also able to continue to slide off the face of Child Support Enforcement, and now ... 19 years later, I AM STILL looking for Child Support Enforcement!
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I think I like this kind of talk\nBottom line: The issue may come down to what one veteran pollster called "sequencing" -- where voters want the government to demonstrate that it's serious about reducing illegal immigration before legalizing 12 million people. That would mean first controlling the border and creating a tamper-proof citizenship card so that employers who hire illegal workers can be prosecuted then assembling a legalization plan.  \n\nI could definitely live with this.Thanks for the great information\nIn the words of that great sage Yogi Berra(not sure of the spelling)\n"It ain't over till its over"
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Unless Schwarzenegger becomes President... no. I would suggest "Pumping Iron" as a more interesting alternative. Its a pseudo-documentary on Schwarzenegger as he trains for the 1975 Mr. Olympia. Arnold is hilarious... and quite ruthless, especially towards a young Lou Ferrigno.\n\nI just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The Dems always do this at election time.  Their true views are far too extreme to be voiced outside of Malibu or New York City.  For a good laugh, tune in Phil Angelides campaign ads -- hilarious, especially when you know his record in public office.  I particularly enjoy the part where he attacks Arnold for taking special interest money, when Andelides' entire campaign is being financed by the two biggest special interests in California, namely, the teachers' union and the public employees' union.  But I'm sure THAT money would never influence any decision of his.  Typical Dems.
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state politics are decided by state constitutions.  The states can put whatever requirements they want on their Governor.  The Federal constitution, however, states that foreign born folks cannot be president.\n\nNo, Arnold cannot be VP.  To take that seat, he MUST be eligible for the presidency.  (There was a question a few years ago about Bill Clinton using the VPs office as a backdoor to a third term, but it was impossible)
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It looks a little scary but the citizens of this country still have the power, just ask the former Gov of CA. protest and crying do not fix things but action will. After a large public outcry the Government is finally addressing the borders and if they think their job is at stake they will do more. We as citizens need to us the tools given to us by our constitution and if need be impeach elected officials. We rule not them they are just our voice.
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It doesn't matter Nina. If the law passes, the same thing will happen there that happens in California. When the people pass a controversial law like that here, this is what happens. A judge will claim the new law is unconstitutional. Thus voiding all our votes and making the new law void. In other words. It'll never happen. That's why I quit voting.
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-- Antonio Villaraigosa \nMayor- Los Angeles, California-"ELECTED" by the VOTES of ILLEGAL ALIENS - \n Villaraigosa has spent a lifetime opposing U.S. immigration laws - \n Villaraigosa Proclaimed, and I Quote \n"This bill in Congress is wrong. The only thing illegal is making 11 million illegal aliens felons." \nYeah!!! He Actually said that. \nPeople should make No Mistake about it -Villaraigosa's Allegiance is to Mexico, NOT California or These United States of America.                                  http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/Villy-Treasonous-Mayor.htmlhttp://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1281\n\nSenor Villaraigosa is A Member Of  "MEChA"  and  " LA RAZA"\n\n -- Mario Obledo \nMexican American Legal Defense Fund Founder - \nFormer California Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Gov. Jerry Brown - \nAwarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton - \nIs Quoted \n “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave. Every constitutional office in California is going to be held by Hispanics in the next 20 years.  People who don't like such demographic changes “should go back to Europe.” http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1173\n\nSenor Obledo Is A Member Of "MEChA" And "LA RAZA" \n\nA leading Aztlan group is the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, known by its Spanish acronym MEChA. \n\nLike many other Hispanic groups,MEChA came out of the "Brown Power" movement of the late '60s. Its founding motto was, \n"For those in the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." \n\nCloser to the mainstream is the Aztlan movement, \nwhich claims Aztec and Spanish ancestry and wants only the western half of the U.S. for      "LA RAZA  de Bronze." \n\nMEChA and the LA RAZA movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "AZTLAN" -- A fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. \nAs such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. These are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. The current borders of the United States will  be extinguished.\n\nThe Council of LA RAZA succeeded in having itself added to congressional hearings by Republican House and Senate leaders. And an anonymous senator even gave the Council of La Raza an extra $4 million in earmarked taxpayer money, (supposedly for "housing reform,") while La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and AMNESTY for ILLEGAL ALIENS \nhttp://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13863\n\n-- Angel Gutierrez, \nProfessor, University of Texas, Arlington- \nFounder of the La Raza Unida political party - \n"We have an aging white America.  They are not making babies.  They are dying.  The explosion is in our population . . .They are shitting in their pants with fear...I love it. We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is, if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."  \n\n-- Art Torres \nCalifornia Democratic Party chairman - \nAt the Latino Summit in Response to Prop 187 at U.C. Riverside (Jan. 14, 1995): \n"Power is not given to you, you have to take it! People say to me when I was on the Senate floor, when I was in the Senate, ' Why do you fight so hard for affirmative action programs? ' And I tell my white colleagues: because you're gonna need them. Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white America"\n\n-- Jose Baca \nCalifornia State Senator - \nIs Quoted 'THE LATINO's ARE COMING, THE LATINO's ARE COMING", Mocking The  American Revolutionary Paul Revere- \n\nYou Can Hear These Words For Yours
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I haven't followed this political case, but I believe that any law named after a person is questionable since those pusing it will often be reacting based on emotion and grief, rather than reason.\n\nAny good law will have safeguards, and rational provisions so that whatever action is made illegal is really the action that is the threat. I generally oppose laws that make actions illegal just because they might, in combination with other actions, have the potential to cause harm. I believe in punishing those who cause the harm, and not limiting action based purely on speculation.\n\nThat being said, the voting process has become an emotional one. People -- whether voters or legislators -- pass laws based on their gut reactions, often without any concern for the consequences or long term effects. Logic and reason have largely been abandoned in favor of making headlines.\n\nAnd sadly, that's not likely to change any time soon. Good luck.
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Arnold only stated campaigning for environmental issues after his special election failed, and his approval ratings dropped. He is using that as a strategy to appeal to Independent and Democratic voters. \n\nPhil Angelides is supported by the Sierra Club. They said he would be the "greenest Governor CA has ever had". Phil has said he will block any attempt at offshore drilling. He has expressed support in protecting the CA Coastline.
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Another war for independance.\n\n\n Dont' think it couldn't happen - the ELECTED officials in southern cali are plotting as we speak how to BREAK THE LAW FURTHER from anything up to and including ARMED REVOLT if Congress doesn't give them everything they want hands down.
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Do not uphold the housing restrictions. It will create massive chaos and only make California communities less safe.\n\nJessica's Law is a political vehicle for Sharon and George Runner, not a thoughtfully written initiative. There are reasons why the California Assembly and Senate repeatedly declined to adopt laws with housing restrictions - because there is no proof that they have anything to do with public safety.\n\nThey're feel good laws designed to lull the public into a false sense of security. That's because the majority of child sex abuse is committed by someone the child already knows - not a stranger. \n\nAnyway, if you're asking this for JG's requrest, I already did it. If not, please consider what I have said. \n\nI am not a sex offender, although I know one. This law is a turkey and the housing restriction is totally unconstitutionaMF\n\nOn Wednesday, Nov. 15th, the attorney general filed a brief stating that the housing restrictions won't be retroactive. Maybe now that can be used as a precedent in other states that have housing restrictions. All the experts say housing restrictions actually make society less safe, not more. These restrictions are just designed to punish, not keep children safe.
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Businesses are the true criminals here. Those who come here illegally to have a better way of life wouldn't come if no one hired them. And no one would hire them if they couldn't do it cheaply and without any insurance. And the illegal immigrants aren't trying to hurt any one but they need a certain amount to live and the businesses just don't pay enough...so the rest of us have to pick up the slack through our taxes while the businesses line their pockets with the profits from the underpaid workers. The only thing we can do is:\n\n1) legislate (yeah, right. like the businesses don't have our government in their pockets.)\n\n2) boycott (Can we really boycott everyone? Nope.)\n\n3) Ignore the problem and hope it doesn't cause the earth to stop spinning and that USA still means the same thing 20 years from now.\n\nHey junior_03yes (BELOW): You must be from California, because there are white farm workers all over this nation...just nut here in CA. You should get yourself an RV and do a little road trip.