Harry Reid’s 1993 claim that ‘no sane country’ would provide birthright citizenship fuels GOP immigration push
Top Republicans are pointing to an impassioned 1993 speech by then-Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., in which the future Senate Majority Leader argued that “no sane country” would award citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants born on their soil, and promoted his own legislation to end the practice in the United States.