What are the countries that grant citizenship to newborn children?

Answer 1

I don't know for sure, but I think USA is the ONLY country to grant citizenship to a newborn child solely because it was born on her soil.

Answer 2

1. Argentina
2. Brazil
3. Cameroon
4. Canada (if born there after 1977)
5. India
6. Jamaica
7. Mexico
8. New Zealand
9. Pakistan
10.Spain
11.United States
12.Venezuela

While there is no formal policy that forbids DHS from deporting the illegal-alien parents of children born in the U.S., they rarely are actually deported. In some cases, immigration judges make exceptions for the parents on the basis of their U.S.-born children and grant the parents legal status. In many cases, though, immigration officials choose not to initiate removal proceedings against illegal aliens with U.S.-born children, so they simply remain here illegally.

Thus, the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens not only represent additional U.S. population growth, but act as 'anchors' to eventually pull a large number of extended family members into the country legally. In fact, an entire industry has built up around the U.S. system of birthright citizenship. Thousands of pregnant women who are about to deliver come to the United States each year from countries as far away as South Korea and as near as Mexico so that they can give birth on U.S. soil. Some come legally as temporary visitors; others enter illegally. Once the child is born, they get a U.S. birth certificate and passport for the child, and their future link to this country is established and irreversible.

As to the 14th ammendment of the United States, it would be difficult to argue that illegal aliens and temporary visitors are "not subject to [a] foreign [p]ower" or that they do not "ow[e] allegiance to anybody" but the United States. The Supreme Court, however, has never decided the issue. The closest it has come is a case involving the U.S.-born child of lawful permanent residents in which, of course, it held the child to be a U.S. citizen. In the absence of a ruling by the Supreme Court, it will remain up to Congress to clarify the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment or to accept the status quo.

Answer 3

It doesn't matter what the intent was. The amendment clearly says that everyone born in the US gets citizenship. The drafters could have written "freed slaves shall have citizen rights" if they wanted to. Let me ask you this: the 15th amendment says that the right to vote may not be denied on the account of race. However, for around 50 years after the amendment was passed, California (and some other states) did not allow Chinese people to vote. The supreme court ruled that this was acceptable, because there were no Chinese people in the US when the 15th amendment was passed, and therefore it was not intended to apply to them. Do you think that is correct?

Answer 4

Canada

Answer 5

The U.S.A. does this for sure, and this is a law that needs to be changed. Illegal entry is against the law but yet illegals can have a child as long as its on American soil then the child becomes a citizen. That makes no sense and should be changed immediately. Too many people abuse this.

Answer 6

I think most countries do. Look at Brad Pitt and Angelina Joile they went and had a baby in a country in Africa for citizenship.

Answer 7

Only the US, and it is the only country that treats immigrants better than the people born here. Which is why all those pregnant Mexican women like to come here, so they can give birth to their illegitimate babies, so they can collect benefit "for the baby."

Answer 8

ALL countries!

Answer 9

More than just the US do. I know for sure that Canada and England do as well.

Answer 10

the good ol' United States