U.S. Citizenship of Persons Born in the United States to Alien Parents [electronic resource]

Reviews historical development of tenet of U.S. citizenship that a person born in the U.S. to alien parents is a U.S. citizen, including the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866; and examines legislative proposals to exclude the children of illegal and nonimmigrant aliens from autom...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l] : [s.n.], 2007.
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Summary:Reviews historical development of tenet of U.S. citizenship that a person born in the U.S. to alien parents is a U.S. citizen, including the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866; and examines legislative proposals to exclude the children of illegal and nonimmigrant aliens from automatic birthright citizenship, including proposed constitutional and statutory amendments.
Item Description:Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
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Physical Description:23 p., digital, PDF file.