Should citizenship guidelines be changed for those born in the US to require one parent to be a legal citizen?
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Yes, of course it should be changed. Our founding fathers did not want illegal aliens coming into our country and breeding anchor babies so that they can get generous social benefits. It costs our country tens of billions of dollars a year to pay for the health care, schooling, medicaid, and free meals for the millions of ancho babies who are in this country. The 14th amendment to the US constitution was not designed to give citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.
Congress must do what is right and stop giving citizenship to the children of illegal aliens. It makes it much more difficult to deport illegal aliens if they have had children in the US.
This is from "$6 Billion a Year for Mexican "Anchor Babies?"
By Andy Selepak | June 5, 2007
These families knew exactly what they were doing when they came to the U.S. and had a child born on U.S. soil. And we know and understand exactly what they're doing. For illegal immigrants, having a child born in the U.S. becomes the Golden Ticket to staying here in this country. Numbers USA calls these children of illegal alien mothers "anchor babies" because they become eligible to sponsor for legal immigration most of their relatives, including
their illegal-alien mothers, when they turn 21 years of age, thus becoming the U.S. "anchor" for an extended immigrant family.
Although birthright citizenship was never intended to be the law of the land, and is a flawed interpretation of the 14th Amendment, birthright citizenship accounts for more than 380,000 children each year, born to illegal alien mothers that become citizens simply because their mothers gave birth on U.S. soil.
However, even this figure could be low. The Federation for
Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates there are between 287,000 and 363,000 children born to illegal aliens each year. These numbers are based on the crude birth rate of the total foreign-born population (33 births per 1,000) and official estimates of the size of the illegal alien population-- between 8.7 and 11 million.
However, the Bear Stearns investment firm and others have concluded that the actual number of illegal aliens in the United States could be as high as 20 million. When using the higher estimate of 20 million illegal immigrants and FAIR's 33 births per 1,000, this would roughly double FAIR's estimate to approximately 574,000 to 726,000 anchor babies born in the U.S. each year.
There should be a requirement that BOTH parents be in the country legally.
It would be a good start. A better start would be requiring the parents to be legally in the United States seeking citizenship and no child being issued citizenship until AFTER the parents received theirs.
Both parents should be legal. If not, deport all of them immediately.
Destroying a family unit for the purposes of citizenship is detestable...it harms children. But Yes, One parent must be a citizen. so YES.
this would make common sense, so it is no surprise it has not been pursued by politicians.
It should be changed and anchor baby laws repealed. The 14th Amendment assured citizenship to former slaves. Congress and the Supreme Court created anchor babies.
The initial case before the SC involved a baby of parents who were legally here.
Both parents should be here LEGALLY. In the cases where the father is not identified, the mother should be here LEGALLY. If the father is later identified as an illegal alien, the child should not be used to give him status.
If one parent is legal and the other illegal, the child should not be used as an excuse to grant status to the illegal parent.
They should have to return to their home nation and apply for legal status under the same consideration as any other applicant.
Yes!
T.S.
Both and 2 have been here at least 1yr with legal documents.
Yes, two illegals don't make a citizen!!
You are way off base, do your research. As of 2001 that law no longer applies to parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, etc. You MUST leave the country and be penalized for being here illegally. So even if an undocumented family has kids that are born here, that doesn't get the parents automatic citizenship. When they apply for residency, it is denied. They then have to go see an immigration judge. The only possible way for the parent to get residency at that point, is if the judge awards them a pardon (also know as cancellation of removal). But that process is extremely hard to get away with. . . so what you just posted is simply misleading the readers (uneducated on the subject), sorry!
No, I'm still for birthright citizenship. (Stop. Think. Does the fact the we have conflicting views make you want to give me thumbs down?) Let me ask you, what would you do with these children who have one legal parent and one not? Deport them? No, they are citizens under the 14th amendment and have a citizen parent. Keep them here? Well, obviously you won't admit to that because then your terrible "anchor baby" problem would go unsolved. Looks like a dilemma.
NO, and NEVER. That's unAmerican to say that. People born in the US are citizens automatically. We are not like some countries in Europe, we are America. Get over it, get a life, move to Europe where you will be fine living because America will never be like you think it should be.
Yes. Every country in the EU and Canada have abolished automatic birthright citizenship for the same reason we need to -- it is used across the board to game our immigration laws and benefit entitlements.
YES , but both parents should be Legal citizens ! America , What a country ! Do you realize that we are the only nation on the face of the entire planet that this issue would even need to be asked or considered ??
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