If Bobby Jindal's mom was pregnant when they immigrated...

[rucky]

and life begins at conception...

Is Bobby a natural-born U.S. Citizen?


I wonder what the birthers would have to say about that.

[tosh]

1. ...

:rofl:

[indepat]

7. Yeah!

:rofl:

[Mist]

2. Also, it seems Bobby was an "anchor baby" !! nt

[Hello_Kitty]

5. Call Lou Dobbs!

[Fresh_Start]

3. lol

i'm in the same position so I'm not poking fun at Jindal.

[skeewee08]

4. Good one:-)

[HereSince1628]

6. You know Gov Bill Richardson's bio right?

Bill Richardson was born in Pasadena, California.<5><6> His father, William Blaine Richardson Jr. (died in 1972), was an American Citibank executive<5><6> who grew up in Boston, Massachusetts<5> and lived and worked in Mexico City.<6> His mother, María Luisa López-Collada Márquez<6> is Mexican<5><7><8> and was his father's secretary<6> and a socialite.<7> Richardson's father was born in Nicaragua.<6> Just before Richardson was born, his father sent his mother to California to give birth because, as Richardson explained, "My father had a complex about not having been born in the United States."<6> Richardson, a U.S. citizen by birthright, was raised during his childhood in Mexico City.<6><7>

[krawhitham]

10. You forgot ONE BIG DIFFERENCE

Bill Richardson is a Democrat :)

[HereSince1628]

12. No I didn't

I'm just saying...throwing mud gets mud on lots of folks.

Co-splatter-all damage ya might say.

[Uzybone]

26. Unlike Jindal, Bill parents were Americans

so there is no comparison.

The OP's point still stands, and the OP is making a joke.

[nsd]

27. Bill's father was American. His mother was not.

But yes, the OP was making a joke in any case.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Oh my, you've really hit on something there!!!

[nichomachus]

9. In some countries

children of non-citizens cannot claim birthright citizenship unless their parents were legal residents for a period of times -- say, five years -- at the time the child was born.

It's not a bad idea and the US should consider it.

[RamboLiberal]

13. Haven't Dobbs, the Repukes and the Freepers been pushing

this to prevent Mexicans and Central American illegals from coming here and having kids just so the kids can be U.S. citizens?

[nichomachus]

16. But that doesn't make it wrong

Just because someone you don't like proposes something, it's not necessarily wrong.

The current rule was put in effect when the country was young and pretty empty and we needed citizens. And, because of the modes of transportation of the time, it was virtually impossible for someone to come here just for the purpose of having their kids become citizens.

Times have changed -- and we need to revisit that idea.

I mean, if Dobbs, Repukes, and Freepers pushed the idea of brushing your teeth after every meal, I hope you wouldn't let that stop you from good dental hygiene.

[NoPasaran]

25. No, the current rule was put in effect

No, the current rule was put in effect after country had fought a bloody civil war, one of whose issues was whether persons who had been property could be citizens. Don't like it? Good luck repealing the Fourteenth Amendment.

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

[jberryhill]

33. Aside from it being unconstitutional....

...it generates too many problems requiring judicial resolution.

It's pretty easy to figure out whether someone was born in the US. Playing "how long was your mother here" is an invitation to uncertainty, games, and administrative expense not worth solving the non-existent "problem".

The 14th Amendment is simple enough.

[jberryhill]

34. Did you mean "parents" as a plural?

Both mother and father?

And we are going to DNA test every putative father, or even know who the father is?

Or did you mean just the mother?

If you mean just the mother, then are you saying that if an US citizen male impregnates an illegal resident female, that the child is not a US citizen, even if born in the US?

After you flesh that one out, we will discuss foundling infants abandoned at hospitals. Because you sure as shooting are going to see an uptick in that.

[JSK]

11. OH, that's rich!!!

:rofl:

[RamboLiberal]

14. Struck me last night that the Freepers who are claiming

Obama whose mother was a U.S. citizen is not a U.S. citizen if Obama was born outside of U.S. because of her age yet have no problem with Jindal - freaky.

Yeah I know the technicalities.

Maybe we ought to demand to see Jindal's birth certificate!

[BrklynLiberal]

15. and then start screaming that it is a fake!!!

[lib_wit_it]

37. Fire with fire. Do we need a small number of Dems to sacrifice themselves as the lunatic fringe and

mirror the repug strategies just for fun and hypocrisy framing?

[rucky]

17. Forget the birth certificate - I wanna see the ultrasound.

[Hansel]

24. Don't you mean the "vault copy" of the ultrasound? n/t

[rucky]

28. Good point. Otherwise it could be a forgery.

[Left Is Write]

21. Yes, we need to see his birth certificate. And then we will demand proof that it's real!

And if he can't provide "proof" that his birth certificate is real, we will accuse him of being a fraud and a liar.

Heck, I want him to prove that he wasn't birthed by space aliens and adopted by the Jindals.

[Arkana]

18. THAT WOULD MAKE HIM A CITIZEN OF ONE OF THE OCEANS!

HES NOT A CITIZEN GUYS I DEMAND TO SEE A BIRF CERTIFICATE :downs:

[vaberella]

19. Oh Lordy...that's messed up. We should bring that to their attention. n/t

[Hepburn]

20. Oh, my....

...now there is a real can of worms to open!

:rofl:

[RepublicanElephant]

22. unfortunately, the key word here is "born" -- coming out of the womb -- in the united states. nt

[Clio the Leo]

23. Too bad he now has no chance of becoming President.....

..... it would be fun to poke them with this.

[biopowertoday]

35. He is only 37. I would not count him out at all.

[Clio the Leo]

36. And when he's 41 he'll still be a goob.

You dont grow out of that.

[beac]

39. Especially when you nicknamed yourself after the baby brother on 'The Brady Bunch'

That's lifetime goob status.

[saltpoint]

29. I think Nancy Grace should handle this inquiry on national cable television.

Who better than she can manage a fair and insightful investigation and dialogue on this topic?

[fujiyama]

30. What I'm more confused about

is how a woman can be 44 1/2 months pregnant. That's a LONG gestation time!

And yes, Jindal is what the right lovingly refer to as anchor babies.

[rucky]

32. maybe she's an elephant?

:shrug:

[jberryhill]

31. Pleeeeeze....

[Jeneral]

38. As I've said

please show the birth certificates of all previous American Presidents. I don't believe anyone has seen Bush I& II and Clinton's birth certificate. And was Roosevelt really natural born? Does natural born also include people born on US bases but not in US territory?

[beac]

40. I want to see Dick Cheney's birth certificate b/c I find it impossible to believe he didn't just

materialize from the sulphurous bowels of Hell, frankly.


And WELCOME to DU! :hi: