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If you read the bill thoroughly...

Thanks Kevin
I did some digging.
As far as I can tell There is nothing in this bill that prevents an illegal alien from walking into any emergency room in this country and getting health care the same as you or I. Mothers can still come here illegally and walk into any emergency room and have their baby who becomes a citizen the moment it is born. Then we take care of Momma and baby.
So NOTHING has changed. Illegals will still get the same care they have been getting all along.

Are you telling us that you've read this bill thoroughly? Wow, I'm impressed!

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That's a tough one and I don't have much in the way of a solution. Pretty hard to justify turning someone away who needs emergency care (plus the natural born thing is in the constitution). Of course, a lot of people (illegals, poor, no health insurance) use the emergency room for "routine", non-emergency health problems. That's a really big problem, too.

Kevin

The 14th Amendment defines citizenship this way: "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." But even this does not get specific enough. As usual, the Constitution provides the framework for the law, but it is the law that fills in the gaps.

Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in those gaps. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are "citizens of the United States at birth:"

* Anyone born inside the United States *
* Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
* Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
* Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
* Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
* A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.

* There is an exception in the law — the person must be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. This would exempt the child of a diplomat, for example, from this provision.

Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year