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born or naturalized........NOT someone who steps over the border illegally.
Wait a minute. Since when can a bill passed by Congress supersede a constitutional amendment?
You're not superseding the Constitution with this bill. You're only modifying law that governs the granting of citizenship in this country which the Constitution gave Congress the power to do in the first place. I mean, INA law sets the standard bywhich U.S. citizenship is granted and it came about long after the 14th Amendment was ratified. All this bill would do is cut out that loophole and do what many of us believe is the right way to go about conferring citizenship to children born in this country to atleast one U.S. citizen parent, as well as, get rid of the "anchor baby" aspect of conferring citizenship to children born in this country to illegal immigrants.
The 14th says born here. Congress can't modify that requirement without a constitutional amendment.
The 14th says born here. Congress can't modify that requirement without a constitutional amendment.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, to parents, one of who is a U.S. citizen, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside and are, therefore deemed natural-born, except for persons born to non-resident immigrants."
As far as I know there is no law that says the child has to stay here
or be removed from his or her mother. I am also okay with the child being given up for adoption or raised by the state. Eliminating chain migration for relatives other than spouse or minor children would basically get rid of the anchor baby seeing how a child born here could no longer facilitate that kind of chain migration and it would not require changing the constitution.
I think, as I have thought before, that the babies getting citizenship in of itself isn't an issue - after all, if you were born here, you were born here regardless of whether or not your mother was here legally. The problem is extension of rights immediately after wards to the parent.
The consititution says that those born here are US citizens. I don't know how much simpler I can make it.
Or we could do the humane thing and leave them with their parents when they are still there.
It doesn't say that they have to stay here, nor does it say the mother is forced to leave her child here.
I have no problem with them staying with their parents just as long as their parents are back in their home country.
So we're going to strip citizenship of people who have ocmmitted no crime. Yeah I don't see a problem with that.
And I have no problem with letting them stay here. The kid has a full legal right to stay here.
In the vast majority of circumstances, it's best to leave the parents with them.
At the very least, the adults should be given paperwork to help the mattain citizenship.
:bsIllegal baby broke the law by being born in the US . . .
The last time that I checked, it isn't legal to deport a U.S. citizen who has committed no crime against the USA. So a child born in the USA can't be deported. However, I could be wrong.The parent should be deported along with the kid . . .
Such an action on the part of the U.S. government would only encourage illegal immigration. Plus, it would be unfair to the legal immigrants who are working to obtain citizenship.The kid has a full legal right to stay here. In the vast majority of circumstances, it's best to leave the parents with them. At the very least, the adults should be given paperwork to help the mattain citizenship.
The last time that I checked, it isn't legal to deport a U.S. citizen who has committed no crime against the USA. So a child born in the USA can't be deported. However, I could be wrong.
I said nothing about striping citizenship.
His parents don't. Since parental rights to a child outwieghs the childs rights I fully support deportees taking their children with them.
Thats why the parents can take their child(notice I said their child) with them back to their country of origin.
This is why many people want more than just to end the anchor baby status of children born to illegals,
this is why they want to end birth right citizenship to children of illegals. People who trespass into the country should not be rewarded with citizenship just because they pop out a anchor baby.
The child has every right to stay. Also it is best if the child is left with its parents. I understand what you are saying, but it is best for the child if anchor baby laws are kept in effect.
I get your point about the parents, but again, the child's citizenship is recognized by the Constitution. No matter what bill is passed, the kid can stay.
Or we could let them in instead of hiding in the shadows. It's kind of hard to economically better yourself when you're tresspassing.
Seeing how the parents have custody of their child then their child goes with them when they are deported and their child is free to come back to the US when the child is old enough to take care himself.
The child staying with his parents in his parents country does not negate his citizenship. Deporting the child is a separate issue.If the child is left behind it is because his parents left him behind instead of taking that child with them.
Burglars try to economically better themselves, as well as drug dealers, car jackers, hackers and other criminals,it doesn't make what they are doing somehow noble. I would rather those people suffer the consequences of their actions.
Its in the best interest of our country to tell the parents to **** off and boot their asses out of here.If the parents wish for the child to stay then they can give that child up for adoption or let a relative who is here legally take care of that child.It is in the best interest of the child to stay here and have their parents stay here.
Illegals aren't violent criminals. Remember you're only a criminal if the government says that what you're doing is a crime. Let them stay and they can rise out of the shadows.
Its in the best interest of our country to tell the parents to **** off and boot their asses out of here.If the parents wish for the child to stay then they can give that child up for adoption or let a relative who is here legally take care of that child.
I would rather they be booted out of the country.They should not be rewarded just because they trespassed into the country and popped a baby out.
I do not know about legal immigrants but illegals on the other hand are a burden.Yeh immigrants have been such a hassle to this country.
I would rather have more people innovating, creating wealth, keeping our birth rate stable, and making our country a better, richer place.
The only reason why illegal aliens are here in the first place is because those in office refuse to do their job.It is not impossible to get rid of all the illegal immigrants nor is it impossible round up and deport all the illegals its been done before in this country Herbert Hoover during the great depression to make jobs avaliable to Americans who needed work, Harry Truman deported over two million illegal aliens after World War II to make jobs availiable to returning WWII veterans and President Dwight Eisenhower successfully deported millions of illegal alien Mexican nationals in a program called “Operation Wetback”, which lasted two years. Again to provide more jobs to AmericansYou can keep bringing up how they're draining our enititlements all you want. It simply shows the flaws of trying to keep them out, which is inpractical.
Booting them out makes no sense when they could be useful to our society
Sounds resonable and sound,but what do the Liberals say? The rule the country now?