Dear CAPS Supporters,

The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2017, HR 140, would restore the 14th Amendment to its original intent and clarify that citizenship at birth is granted only if one of the parents is a U.S. citizen, lawfully-admitted permanent resident alien, or alien on active service in the military.

ACTION ALERT – Tell your Representative to end Accidental Birthright Citizenship!

In spite of the misimpression presented by the media, the Supreme Court has never ruled that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution – passed to ensure that former slaves were considered U.S. citizens – grants citizenship to the American-born children of illegal aliens, foreign students, tourists, or temporary foreign workers in the United States.

Judge Richard Posner, named by The Journal of Legal Studies as the most cited legal scholar of all time, wrote in Oforji v. Ashcroft:

We should not be encouraging foreigners to come to the United States solely to enable them to confer U.S. citizenship on their future children…. A constitutional amendment may be required to change the rule whereby birth in this country automatically confers U.S. citizenship, but I doubt it…. Congress would not be flouting the Constitution if it amended the Immigration and Nationality Act to put an end to the nonsense.

More than 300,000 babies are born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants each year, about 8 percent of all U.S. births. Granting citizenship to anyone and everyone born on U.S. soil has led to a flourishing birth tourism industry and serves as an inducement for more illegal immigration.

For more background on the issue, read an op-ed by CAPS Executive Director Ric Oberlink that appeared in several publications in 2015.

Industrialized nations in Europe and across the globe have ended birthright citizenship.  Even the “immigrant nations” of New Zealand and Australia have abolished it. Let Congress know that it is time for America to join the 21st century by passing The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2017.

ACTION NEEDED

Please ask your Representative to support the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2017 by CLICKING HERE!

Thank you for taking action with us!

Team CAPS