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Albright Backs Foreigners for Presidency
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (news - web sites) said Friday that foreign-born citizens should be allowed to run for president, a reform that would require amending the Constitution.
"We are a country of immigrants. I think that it would be not a bad thing to try to figure out how to allow foreign-born people to become president," Albright told the Little Rock Rotary Club while in town to attend the opening of Bill Clinton (news - web sites)'s presidential library.
Supporters of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) have started an effort to amend the Constitution to allow immigrants to run for president. Schwarzenegger was born in Austria. Albright was born in Czechoslovakia.
Albright said foreign-born candidates would still have to meet certain requirements. "I think there has to be some very long period of time that somebody has lived in the U.S.," she said.
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Personally, I don't like the idea a bit.