1.   Israel offers automatic citizenship to all Jews who want it, whatever colour they are and whichever language they speak.

2.   Also, he is opposed to a portion of the GOP platform calling for a constitutional amendment removing the automatic citizenship given to anyone born in the country.

3.   But now any foreign-born child adopted by at least one American citizen gets automatic U.S. citizenship as soon as they enter American territory.

4.   He proposes to deny automatic U.S. citizenship to babies born in the United States to illegal immigrants, and to make English the official language.

5.   Irish law grants automatic citizenship to all children born here.

6.   It will enable any child born in Germany who has at least one parent who has been in the country for eight years to gain automatic German citizenship.

7.   It would deny automatic citizenship to children of illegal immigrants and short-term visitors.

8.   Pataki said earlier Saturday that he disagreed with a GOP platform plank calling for the American-born children of illegal aliens to be denied automatic U.S. citizenship.

9.   Pataki disagrees with the party platform, which says automatic citizenship should be denied to American-born children of illegal immigrants.

10.   The Law of Return grants automatic citizenship to anyone who has a Jewish grandparent, but religious law recognizes only those whose mothers were Jewish.