To the editor: There are very few Americans who can say that their citizenship is not as a birth. (“Meet Trump's attack architect against the citizenship of Birth Law, a California lawyer who faces disqualification,” Column, January 23)
My own English paternal grandfather entered Canada when I was a teenager in a cattle boat. He earned a living by trapping and training wild horses in the western part of our continent and then selling them.
He married a German woman whose family came from the Polish corridor, who was part of Germany for a year and Poland to the next, and began his family in Minnesota.
There is no paperwork to demonstrate that they were once naturalized as Americans, and I don't know if they ever they were. Even so, their 12 children, 26 grandchildren (my generation), our children, our grandchildren and our great -grandchildren are undoubtedly American based on the 14th amendment.
Carol Nelson-Selby, San Luis Obispo
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To the editor: The ideas that begin as positive are many negatives when it comes to human nature.
Birth law citizens are one of those wonderful positive ideas, which reaches the end of the bad days of slavery. The decades passed and, being human, some people have taken advantage of the citizenship of birth rights.
For example, people from other countries have come to the United States in the last days of their pregnancy to give birth here, known as “birth tourism”, making their children US citizens.
This is known, and if it continues it must be the opinion of us, people. Should we continue with rescue citizens?
Elaine Vanoff, West Hollywood
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To the editor: Apparently, birth lawyers not only attack the right of people born in the United States to undocumented parents to be citizens. In addition, one of its main opponents to this right, John Eastman, affirms that people born here for non -naturalized people should not be “citizens born in nature.”
My three children were born in the United States in a father in Spain and a mother from the Netherlands, neither of them still naturalized at that time. Eastman, who was one of my daughter's professors at Fowler's Law Faculty at Chapman University, and with whom he sometimes faced in class about politics, denies his natural citizenship?
I would like to see him take her to court, and he would lose.
Anneke Mendiola, Santa Ana
