Not ONE European Country Gives Automatic Birthright Citizenship to Children Born There Illegally

Thursday - August 20, 2015

RUSH: You know, they're always telling us that we need to be more like Europe, that Europe is sophisticated.  I mean, the Democrats are telling us, the people like John Kerry. We need to be more like the Europeans, you know, they're fair, they've modified socialism, they're certainly less barbaric.  Did you know...? This is Liz Peek in the Fiscal Times.  "Among developed nations, only the US and Canada still offer automatic citizenship to children born on their soil. Not a single European country follows the practice."  

Did you know that?  In other words, let's say that you live in Morocco, and you want to go to London. You go to London, you're a woman and you get pregnant, you give birth, your kid is not a citizen of the UK.  The United States and Canada still are the only countries, developed nations, that offer automatic citizenship to children born on their soil.  Not a single European country follows the practice. 

Look, referring to what's happening to this country as an invasion, if invasion makes you nervous, colonization, try that word.  And I'm being specific in terms of the definition of words.  This is not immigration.  These people are not immigrating.  They're migrating, maybe, and the left loves to use that word, call them migrants.  That makes them sound like they pick lettuce.  That makes them sound like they're Cesar Chavez or what have you.  But it isn't immigration.  Immigration has a set of laws which lay out steps and procedures that noncitizens must follow in order to become citizens.  None of that is happening here. 

And it's not just here.  You know Europe -- speaking of Europe -- they are so obsessed and have been for so long with political correctness, they may as well have erased their borders.  This is not a criticism; this is simply a statement of fact.  
The most popular name for newborn baby boys in Britain, what is it, Snerdley?  (interruption)  Mohammed is right.  Mohammed.  "What's wrong with that, Mr. Limbaugh?"  Nothing.  Nothing.  Don't jump off your horses out there.  I'm just telling you.  What does it tell you that's happened?

And I'll tell you, I was wrong about something.  I said earlier this week when I first introduced this whole concept of colonization or invasion that many of the people coming are escaping poverty, war, other forms of stress and duress in their own countries, and I've been told that's not the case in a majority of these instances, and particularly with what's happening in Europe.  It's just that people think there's a better place to live than where they were born and where they live, so they're going there. 

And Europe, you know, I mean these are the people that think they're the smartest and the brightest, the most sophisticated.  They're not discriminating. They're not judgmental, none of this, and if somebody wants to come in their country, fine and dandy, and now they're being overwhelmed.  

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RUSH: Here's Wayne in Orillia, Canada, welcome, great to have you on the program, sir.  Hi.

CALLER:  Hey, Rush, longtime listener.  Thanks for taking my call.

RUSH:  You bet, sir.

CALLER:  You had mentioned earlier in the first hour that Canada allows what they call anchor babies.  Now, being born on Canadian soil just does not automatically entitle you to citizenship.  If you want that, you have to be born to a permanent resident or citizen.  This was brought up I think in 2012 by what we call the Tories, you call the conservatives.

RUSH:  Right, right.

CALLER:  It comes through the parents.  It comes through the parents and then a financial sponsorship.  But you just cannot automatically say, "Okay, I had a baby, there it is, he's automatically Canadian."  So I think the US is the only place in the world right now that allows that.

RUSH:  Well, if that's true, that's true.

CALLER:  I think you nailed it earlier Rush when you said it's a myth, because it's a myth or a misnomer here as well, and it's a myth or misnomer in the States.  It was just, you know, anchor babies or birth tourists or passport babies, whatever we want to call 'em was just something that was predicated, brought on by the media. You kind of knocked it off.

RUSH:  A bunch of misleading liars have over the years convinced people that it's in our Constitution, that if you're born here, no matter who's the mother, you're a citizen.  And that it's right there in the 14th Amendment.  It's not.  It's not in the 14th Amendment.  This whole thing derives from a footnote in a Supreme Court decision by that idiotic justice William O. Douglas.  That is the only reason this whole thing exists.  It has never been a law passed by the United States Congress, even.  Its roots trace to the Supreme Court and the assumption that whatever happens at the Supreme Court is infallible. 

Now, I know it says here tickets were selling so fast to the Trump -- I didn't know Trump was selling tickets, charging admission for his events.  The story implies that there -- doesn't imply, it states -- that ticket sales were so brisk.  Maybe, you know what, it could just be some lazy reporter.  I mean, tickets are being given away as they are to every campaign rally and they just throw the word "sell" in there.  Anyway, Wayne, I appreciate the call, and you thank you for the clarification on the status of this in Canada.