Comments on: Pulling Up the Ladder http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/ ...so you don't have to. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:06:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: LA http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/#comment-742 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:49:15 +0100 http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/#comment-742 Hey Dana! <a href="http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2914" rel="nofollow">Suck on this</a>! Hey Dana!

Suck on this!

]]> by: Ryan http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/#comment-741 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:38:15 +0100 http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/#comment-741 I'm not so sure that even matters, Dana. Michelle's position is to the extreme, as far as I can tell. (She doesn't really stress this point often enough for me to know her explicit position.) But I get the impression that she believes only children born to two citizen parents should be granted birthright citizenship. This is from an <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33420" rel="nofollow">older column</a> by MM: <blockquote>Clearly, the custom of granting automatic citizenship at birth to children of tourists and <b>temporary workers</b> such as Hamdi and to countless "anchor babies" delivered by illegal aliens on American soil, undermines the integrity of citizenship – not to mention national security.</blockquote> In the case of Hamdi's parents, they were both in the U.S. legally, but only temporarily. I don't know for certain what the legal status of the Malkins' was ca. 1970, but from the cursory description given by other bloggers, Michelle does fit her own definition of "anchor baby". I'm not really sure what "argument" I'm making here that could "fall apart". I'm just commenting on the dustup, and agreeing that MM's derision of "jackpot babies" is somewhat disingenuous and hypocritical. I’m not so sure that even matters, Dana. Michelle’s position is to the extreme, as far as I can tell. (She doesn’t really stress this point often enough for me to know her explicit position.) But I get the impression that she believes only children born to two citizen parents should be granted birthright citizenship. This is from an older column by MM:

Clearly, the custom of granting automatic citizenship at birth to children of tourists and temporary workers such as Hamdi and to countless “anchor babies” delivered by illegal aliens on American soil, undermines the integrity of citizenship – not to mention national security.

In the case of Hamdi’s parents, they were both in the U.S. legally, but only temporarily. I don’t know for certain what the legal status of the Malkins’ was ca. 1970, but from the cursory description given by other bloggers, Michelle does fit her own definition of “anchor baby”.

I’m not really sure what “argument” I’m making here that could “fall apart”. I’m just commenting on the dustup, and agreeing that MM’s derision of “jackpot babies” is somewhat disingenuous and hypocritical.

]]> by: Rev. Mykeru http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/#comment-740 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:35:09 +0100 http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/#comment-740 That won't stop the Blood Llama, you know. That won’t stop the Blood Llama, you know.

]]> by: Dana http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/#comment-739 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:04:51 +0100 http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/#comment-739 But were Mrs Malkin's parents here legally? If they were, your argument falls apart, and that is an issue you have not addressed. But were Mrs Malkin’s parents here legally? If they were, your argument falls apart, and that is an issue you have not addressed.

]]> by: Rev. Mykeru http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/#comment-732 Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:47:39 +0100 http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/#comment-732 I suspect the response will be something measured and constructive <a href="http://www.mykeru.com/llama.html" rel="nofollow">like this</a>. I suspect the response will be something measured and constructive like this.

]]> by: Sirkowski http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/#comment-731 Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:37:00 +0100 http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com/2006/06/04/pulling-up-the-ladder/#comment-731 Has she reported her parents to the INS? Has she reported her parents to the INS?

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