In a message dated 7/3/02 8:17:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> Accident of birth is not correct.  Many people did (and still do) come to
> the U.S. to give birth to their children, so that their children are then
> citizens of the U.S.
>
>

US rules for citizenship and immigration are a bizarre mess.  This is just
one of the dumb things about it.  Where a woman gives birth to a baby makes a
difference in the baby's citizenship.

Wouldn't it make much more sense to say "children of US citizens are US
citizens and children on non-US citizens and also non-US citizens"?

Dare I mention how this ties in to the H1B program?  How about the differing
rules for different nationalities?  Accepted but illegal aliens?

Wayne Boyer

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