Terrence P. Jeffrey,CNSNews.com
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) said in a congressional hearing Tuesday that a young person who is an illegal alien in the United States today may someday become president.
“When I look around this room,I see America’s future,our doctors,our teachers,our nurses,our engineers,our scientists,our soldiers,our congressmen,our senators,and maybe our president,” Durbin said immediately after having asked all young persons in the room to stand if they were currently undocumented aliens who would be eligible to become citizens if the DREAM Act were passed.
As a videotape of the hearing shows,a large portion of the audience in the room rose at Durbin’s request. Durbin also said in his introductory remarks that there were “hundreds”of young people in the room eligible to become beneficiaries of the DREAM Act.
“I ask my colleagues to consider the plight of these young people who find themselves in a legal twilight zone through no fault of their own,” said Durbin. “They are willing to serve the country they love. All they’re asking for is a chance.”
Making the young people Durbin was speaking of eligible to become president would require more than passage of the DREAM Act,however. It would require a constitutional amendment.
As the U.S. Constitution now stands,even legal immigrants are not eligible to serve as president. Article 2,Section 1,Clause 5 of the Constitution says:“No Person except a natural born Citizen,or a Citizen of the United States,at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution,shall be eligible to the Office of President.”
Durbin,like most Dumbocrats is a Flaming Idiot!
For such a stupid comment he should be run out of office NOW.
Durbin,like most Dumbocrats is a Flaming Idiot. For making such a stupid
comment he needs to be run out of office NOW!
Hey Cubbies,anybody read the "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire?"If you have not you should,it is very evident that Dick Turbine has no Historical background what so ever. And you know Cubbies,this is flat pathetic,that these Elitist bastards in Washington have the idea that we serve them!! They seem to be retarded in their thinking,and everything they do is in retrospect. And frankly Cubbies,I am getting sick and tired of these elitist buttpirates in their thinking and their attempts to do something that is the WILL OF THE PEOPLE!!! The is a bad storm coming and it will be a bloodly coop,and it will not stop until the place is purged!!! And frankly Cubbies,I really welcome this,if is through the vote or by physical means I welcome it!!! CAN YOU AFFORD ANOTHER FOUR MORE YEARS OF THESE BUTTPIRATES RUNNING THE SHOW????
We already have an illegal immigrant for president without changing the constitution….guest
I guess that Durban,the friend of the turban,is ignoring the fact that an illegal ( in several ways ) is already president,who will sooner or later be seeking amnesty for himself.