To the editor: There are only a few People who can say that their citizenship isn’t by means of birthright. (“Meet the architect of Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, a California lawyer facing disbarment,” column, Jan. 23)
My very own English paternal grandfather entered Canada as an adolescent on a cattle boat. He made a dwelling by catching and coaching wild horses throughout the western a part of our continent then promoting them.
He married a German lady whose household got here from the Polish Hall, which was a part of Germany one yr and Poland the subsequent, and so they began their household in Minnesota.
There isn’t any paperwork to show that they had been ever naturalized as People, and I don’t know that they ever had been. Nonetheless, their 12 kids, 26 grandchildren (my era), our youngsters, our grandchildren and our nice grandchildren are unquestionably American primarily based on the 14th Modification.
Carol Nelson-Selby, San Luis Obispo
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To the editor: Concepts that begin as optimistic prove to have many negatives when coping with human nature.
Birthright citizenship is a type of fantastic optimistic concepts, coming on the finish of the evil days of slavery. The many years handed, and being human, some folks have taken benefit of birthright citizenship.
For instance, folks from different international locations have come to the US within the final days of their being pregnant to offer start right here — known as “birth tourism” — making their kids Americans.
That is recognized, and whether or not it continues ought to be as much as the opinion of we the folks. Ought to we proceed with birthright citizenship?
Elaine Vanoff, West Hollywood
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To the editor: Apparently, not solely do the birthright deniers assault the best of individuals born within the U.S. to undocumented dad and mom to be residents. Additionally, one among their foremost opponents to this proper, John Eastman, states that individuals born right here to unnaturalized individuals must also not be “natural-born residents.”
My three kids had been born within the U.S. to a father from Spain and a mom from the Netherlands, neither but naturalized on the time. Would Eastman, who was one among my daughter’s professors on the Fowler College of Regulation at Chapman College — and with whom she generally sparred at school over politics — deny her natural-born citizenship?
I want to see him take her on in court docket, and he would lose.
Anneke Mendiola, Santa Ana
