In this country. there are only two ways to prove your citizenship. One is your birth certificate. The other is. if you became a naturalized citizen through the Immigration and Naturalization Service. to produce your naturalization certificate. The lists that the INS provided. of course. have no basis for birth certificates. because it is not within their purview. Yet it does have the names of individuals who. like myself. was born in the United States and who may have claimed a family member at some time from abroad and because they simply filed that appropriate petition to claim that family member from abroad under our immigration and naturalization laws is put on this list. However. the INS cannot prove that that individual is a citizen or not because they do not in fact have what in my case would be the birth certificate. That is not their document. They have naturalization certificates. So this list is promulgated not having a basis by which you can ever make a determination. The majority on the Committee on House Oversight knows that the only way. which they simply do not want to do. and I understand why they do not want to do it. is to take the list of those who they challenge as voters and be able to pursue those voters by having each and every single individual address and prove to them whether or not they are a citizen by birth. which means a birth certificate. or a citizen by naturalization. which means a naturalization certificate. Since they are unwilling to do that. and since they know the outrage that would be generated by people with the door on their home being knocked at and saying. "By the way. we want proof of your citizenship." and I am sure they would equally go and visit a Smith or a Thomas or a Dornan as they would a Sanchez or a Suarez or some other Hispanic name. People would be outraged that they would be approached and their citizenship would be questioned.
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