Re: SF Politics and Super Tuesday

In article <Xns9A3D7E90F71F3mss2mediaonenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Michael S. Schiffer <mschiffe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Peter Bruells <usernet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Kurt Busiek <kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
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>>> Your argument seems to depend on the idea that it was possible
>>> for it to be discovered that baby Kal wasn't born on US soil.  
> 
>> Yes.
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>>> While that's true, it's not germane -- what matters to the law
>>> is whether it was _discovered_ that he wasn't. And by
>>> "discovered," I don't think they mean discovered by anyone but
>>> never re****ted, but officially discovered and noted by the
>>> state -- otherwise, presumably, the law wouldn't work at all,
>>> because a child born outside the US but found within the US has
>>> someone who knew he was born outside the US -- the people or
>>> person there at the birth, and/or those who brought the child
>>> in.  
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>> Sure.  But by that logic smuggling children into the US would
>> make them legal Americans. 
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>Assuming that their status wasn't challenged at any point in the 
>next two decades or so, yes.
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>> I very much doubt that this is the intention of the law.
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>But it would probably be the effect of the law, until and unless it 
>was changed to address the issue.  Just as birthright citizen****p 
>means that some people are born citizens because their noncitizen 
>mothers are in the US at the time of their birth-- this bothers 
>some people, but thus far not enough to change it.  Likewise, if 
>every planet in the galaxy starts shooting their orphans at us, it 
>might be necessary to take legislative notice of the issue-- or at 
>least introduce some standard, formal investigation of foundlings 
>to determine extraterrestrial status.
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>Though assuming that they're being adopted and socialized, I'm not 
>sure that there's a better answer to the issue than making them 
>citizens.  It's not as if we can send them back, even if their 
>previous address isn't currently a radioactive asteroid field.
>
>Mike

Isn't this moot for Superman?  I thought it had been established that
his space****p held him in a "birthing matrix" and it was declared 
that he had actually been "born" when he was decanted in Kansas.

Or was this covered up-thread?

				Ted
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