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| Lawyers for Deported Alien Use ''Fetus Citizenship Argument''* |
| 2004-07-28 |
| Link provided courtesy of ChronWatch in its "Nut Watch" column Lawyers for a deported Mexican woman who is eight months pregnant are seeking her return to the United States to protect the unborn baby's health. They also say under federal law the fetus is a viable human being and thus may be eligible for citizenship rights. That argument sounds like a long shot to some on both sides of the immigration debate. But in May, a U.S. District Court judge in Kansas City, Mo., approved a stay of deportation for a pregnant Mexican woman after raising, among other concerns, the question of whether her fetus could be considered a U.S. citizen. The judge is reviewing the issue. That Missouri decision cannot set legal precedent, but immigration attorneys say it may offer them a new angle in deportation cases. ...Her husband's attorney, Luis Carrillo, said he is considering whether to file a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement for unlawful deportation...He also cited the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004, in which unborn children are granted equal protection under criminal law. Carrillo said that since the fetus is 8 months and would be viable outside the womb, it should be treated as a child born in the United States. "The child was conceived in the United States and would have been born in the United States except that the mother was deported. Through no part of his own, the unborn baby is in Mexico," Carrillo said. On the one hand, the left claims a fetus has no rights, but on the otherhand, the left claim an unborn fetus has rights and entitlements??? This country will be torn asunder by lawyers before OBL has a chance to do it. |
| Posted by:rex |
| #11 "That's probably because the label "the left" doesn't refer to a single opinion or a single political attitude but rather to a whole spectrum of them. Not really. It's tiresome and boring what uniformity and conformity of thought there is on the Left, particularly when it comes to abortion and foetuses. They've all drunk the abortion Kool Aid and only back off on babies in the womb being lifeless foetsuses when it serves one of their other purposes, as here, which is getting the warm body of an illegal alien on the Lib Dim voting rolls. |
| Posted by: GreatestJeneration 2004-07-28 10:05:11 PM |
| #10 If the lawyers lose their case, can we deport them too? |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2004-07-28 9:15:38 PM |
| #9 Holy Shait! You mean the INS actually deported someone? Amazing, but it does happen, apparently. (via Bill Quick) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-28 11:47:32 AM |
| #8 Holy Shait! You mean the INS actually deported someone? Quick someone better start selling heaters in hell -- I think its freezing...... This is so stupid. Is Edwards involved? Do you think the judge issued the stay of deportation until the baby is born here? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-07-28 9:28:24 AM |
| #7 If every pregnant woman who enters the US and then leaves delivers I gues the argument could be made that these children could have been born in the US but weren't through no fault of their own so maybe they should be granted citizenship as well. Hell, why not just grant citizenship to every child in the world. They weren't born here because they had no control over the circumstances of their birth. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-07-28 7:14:15 AM |
| #6 The LLL will use whatever argument it needs to further its cause. Inconsistancies and contradictions are just speed bumps to the goal. The end justifies the means, ITBO. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul in Fairbanks 2004-07-28 3:36:59 AM |
| #5 The law says "born in", numb nuts, not "conceived in", so your fetus may qualify as a human being but it's not a US citizen. NEXT! |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-07-28 1:39:00 AM |
| #4 "On the one hand, the left claims a fetus has no rights, but on the otherhand, the left claim an unborn fetus has rights and entitlements??? " That's probably because the label "the left" doesn't refer to a single opinion or a single political attitude but rather to a whole spectrum of them. Often their only common characteristic is that they aren't in "the right" of "the center". :-) |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-07-28 12:55:01 AM |
| #3 Just another case of lawyers screwing around. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-07-28 12:34:54 AM |
| #2 Aw fuck. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-07-28 12:29:25 AM |
| #1 If they can prove that the sperm met the egg in the US, they might have a case ;-) |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-07-28 12:18:52 AM |