Thread: Wealthy/Emerging Nations -Eliminated Birthright Citizenship

Wealthy & Emerging Nations Have Eliminated Birthright Citizenship -- We Should, Too

(MY BUSINESS WEEK ARTICLE) Nearly All Wealthy & Emerging Nations Have Eliminated Birthright Citizenship -- We Should, Too


By Roy Beck, Friday, July 24, 2009, 3:22 PM

Business Week is running an on-line debate today on federal policy of giving U.S. citizenship to every baby born within our borders -- including more than 400,000 per year born to illegal aliens.

I was given 200 words to make the case against birthright citienship. Click here to read both sides of the debate and to leave your own comments as part of the debate.

MY BUSINESS WEEK ARGUMENT AGAINST BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

Maternity tourism is just the beginning of the silliness of birthright citizenship that goes to the babies of foreign students, temporary foreign workers, international travelers--and the millions who break the law to criminally enter this country.

All told, federal law (not the Constitution) gives citizenship to an estimated minimum 400,000 babies each year who don’t have even one parent who is a U.S. citizen or permanent legal immigrant. This is a huge impediment to efforts to stabilize U.S. population to allow for environmental sustainability. And it is a great incentive for more illegal immigration.

Each of these babies becomes an anchor who retards deportation of unlawfully present parents--and who eventually will be an anchor for entire families and villages as chain migration leads to the immigration of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Birthright citizenship is an antiquated practice that has been abandoned by nearly all wealthy nations and emerging nations (recently India and Indonesia) and by the majority of poor nations.

The Supreme Court has ruled only that the Constitution requires babies of legal immigrants be U.S. citizens. It is time to join the modern world, pass H.R. 1868 (Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009), and limit citizenship to babies who have at least one parent who is a citizen or legal immigrant.

ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusab ... ave-elimin

And these babies can become President after living in another country forever. Correct the Errors with Anchor Babies, Retroactively

I read both sides (click on link to Numbers, then click on their link to "both sides"). Roy Beck wins this debate no question.

ALIPACers could shred the other guys pro-anchor baby arguments, easily. I don't even have the time right now, because his arguments are so FULL of holes, and I need to get going. He of course is from some "civil rights" organization, which I'm sure demands that illegal alien invaders have all the same rights in the US as legal US citizens. He is not interested in what is best for the US.

There is NO good justification for the continuation of this abomination.

Maybe they are doing it to keep Americans from bailing of of Meximerica.

Make it retroactive too!!!

DEPORT

I disagree with cancelling birthright citizenship for Anchors being retroactive-------------although I would have no issue with booting out the illegal alien parents.

Why I say that is how far does one go back in disenfranchising Anchors? 10 years? 20 years? 30 years? 50 years? I see way too opportunity for mischief there against innocent people who qualified under the law at the time.

Illegals were never qualified, and this scheme started generations ago. So were should the line be drawn?

Whatever happened to defending our national sovreignty?

I think that all of the anchors should be allowed to stay in his country if their parents pay the American tax payers back for all the services, goods and resources the anchors received and/or used for the entire time they have been in our country.

And if the illegal parents are willing to do that and the anchors stay they will also have pay taxes, learn English, have a clean bill of health, have no criminal record and have skills/abilities that our country needs and/or not take jobs away from legal citizens.

Originally Posted by vmonkey56

Illegals were never qualified, and this scheme started generations ago. So were should the line be drawn?

Any new Anchors born after a certain date should not receive birthright citizenship.

Remember too if the illegal alien parents are deported-----------most of the time the extant minor age (and some adults ones as well) will follow.