WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Eric Schmitt issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO), chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee of the Constitution, introduced the American Citizenship Act to protect American citizenship and rein in birthright citizenship abuse. This announcement follows the Supreme Court's decision declaring that current law grants birthright citizenship to the children of illegal and temporarily present aliens.
"American citizenship is sacred-our nation, and its people, are bound together by the values and freedoms our forefathers fought a revolution to secure. But the Supreme Court's erroneous interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment last month degraded the meaning of that citizenship by ...