Birthright hearings would be deja vu

From: Politico

Birthright hearings would be deja vu
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41245.html



The recent call by Senate Republicans to hold hearings on revising the 14th Amendment seemed to introduce a new wrinkle in the polarizing debate over illegal immigration.

Or did it?

In the mid-1990s, House Judiciary Committee panels held two separate hearings on birthright citizenship, the policy protected under the 14th Amendment that automatically grants citizenship to people born in the United States. . . . .