Washington. DC. has to bear that responsibility. I still remember an illegal woman telling me one time. an illegal alien woman saying. "Mr. Bilbray. if you really didnt want us to do it. you wouldnt be rewarding us for doing it." I think that it is time that we send that clear message. and we send it quite fairly and quite strongly. that we do not blame them. we blame ourselves. for the lack of commitment and involvement in this issue. that we have sent the wrong message for too long. and that we are going to address it. The 14th amendment. Mr. Speaker. does not say that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States. The 14th amendment says that you have to be born in the United States and must be subject to the jurisdiction thereof. To be subject to the jurisdiction thereof. you do not only have to be subject to being arrested and prosecuted. as so many people assume in this country. but to be subject to the jurisdiction as defined in British common law and as inherited by us through our own Constitution. because even in the Wong Kim Ark case. it was quite clear the Supreme Court ruled there is no common law in America except the British common law. that the British common law said that to be subjects. you must be not only obedient. but you must be loyal. that the obligation of obedience is only onehalf of the responsibility of being subject to the jurisdiction thereof. and that loyalty is the other half.
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