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Constitutional Law

Jan. 27, 2004

United States Is a Nation of Immigrants

Forum Column - By Dilan Esper - I have seen few opinion pieces more wrongheaded than John Eastman's article titled "The U.S. Citizenship Stretch: Not Every Person Born in U.S. to Foreign Parents Should Receive Rights, Protection" (Forum, Jan. 20), which argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should use the case Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, which involves the Bush administration's designation of Yaser Hamdi as an "enemy combatant," to overturn more than 100 years of precedent.

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