Thread: Should US Deny Citizenship to Children of Illegal Aliens?

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Should U.S. deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants? Two views

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Yes. Some exploit birthright citizenship to dodge deportation.

Georgia Rep. Nathan Deal’s pending legislation in Congress that would end the lunacy of awarding birthright citizenship to children born in the United States to illegal alien parents should have become law when he first introduced it six years ago. It should be passed into law now.

It won’t be. But the issue needs to be discussed.

One of the myths surrounding the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the current convoluted misinterpretation of its birthright citizenship clause is that automatic U.S. citizenship is granted to every child born on American soil.

It is not. Doing so was never the intention of Congress.

Despite lawfully present parents, children born in the United States to diplomats and other public ministers of foreign nations are not awarded what is arguably the most coveted and valuable title in the world: “United States citizen.â€

YES, send them all back to their home country. The American people don't want to pay for them.

YES...It was not intended to make the kids that illegal aliens purposely plop out here, into citizens...

This Amendment was added because of the released slave issue 100 plus years ago. There is no industrialized country on the planet that does not require at least one parent to be a citizen. We are selling ourselves down the river with this one. It had a purpose, now it doesn't.

No way - but what we want doesn't matter anymore.

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Originally Posted by CaliVoter

No way - but what we want doesn't matter anymore.

If you're legally here, or a citizen, you have a job work hard, you have faith in a God and you believed in this country YOU ARE SCREWED.

I've told that lie to my children: that you have to study hard, get the best possible grades, kick ass and compete to get what you want - get in the best college (I have one at Berkeley another at Wharton) - that you will be rewarded for your hard work.

Probably the biggest lies I've ever told my children.

I told/tell my boys the truth, they have to be top of their class or there would be no way in hell they could overcome the advantages of the wealthy or the inequality of affirmative action.

So far so good.

I do not and cannot understand how a baby can be under the jurisdiction of anybody buts its mother. They can't speak, reason, or survive without their mother, usually. And all these numerous Mexican mother's children also (if I understand correctly) have Mexican citizenship.
Gross misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment.