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The amendments is the supreme law of the land and anything inconsistent with the constitution would be invalid. bill: if the act were carried out, requiring at least one parents to be a u.s. citizen for a baby to become an american citizen at birth, if you enacted the bca as some refer to it, is that a way to get around the 14th amendment and get done what people bike jon cornyn and jon kyl and john mccain and john boehner are trying do. >> no, that would not be a way around it. there is no way around the constitution, these people took an oath to uphold the constitution, all of it, not part o...

60,000 babies are born to illegal mothers every year and judge andrew napolitano, fox senior analyst and knows the constitution back and forth... and the 14th amendment was enacted 1868. >> right. bill: reason was, we were coming out of the civil war and wanted to protect those -- >> there was a dispute as -- at the time, of the citizenship status of slaves, slaves born elsewhere and slaves born here and the law has been upheld uniformly since 1868. and without exception. and, we start with a couple of basics. the congress cannot change the constitution or the 14th amendment on its own, it tak...

In the 1980s and tehran under increasing international pressure for nuclear programs and u.s. commanders say they have contingency plans for attacking iran. bill: amend the amendment, a new debate over capitol -- on capitol hill over the 14th amendment, which grants automatic citizenship to anyone born in the u.s., on u.s. soil and that includes the children of illegal immigrants and that is why some republicans, prominent republicans are prising for changes including the house minority leader john boehner. listen here. >> but i think we do have -- where there is a problem, to provide an incen...