wouldn't a constitutional amendment help the situation?

Question

I have stated before that a constitutional maendment that gives children, born on American soil, only the sme status as their parents. an illegal's child would be illegal and a legal alien would sahre its mother's status as a legla alien, too.
No change, of course, for citizens.

Would this not be a very good thing and remove one of the motivational factors for people to come here illegally?

Take away MY citizenship? No thanks. Do you think that American Indians started the USA? They did not!

My father told me that I am both part Huron and Iraquois, so I guess I qualify on those grounds as well! Next stupid question?

Answer 1

The problem is that this (Fourteenth Amendment)
has been misinterpreted in recent years
to mean simply that anyone born in the U.S,
under any circumstances, is an American citizen.
This is neither the original intent of the law
nor the way it was interpreted by the courts
in subsequent decades.

Some Americans speak of birthright citizenship
as if it were an immutable law of nature.
It is not, and most other nations do not, in fact, recognize it.
It is only a BAD HABIT that could be broken
with a simple Executive Order.

A group of attorneys and immigration experts are trying to do something about the problem RIGHT NOW.

Craig Nelsen, director of Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement Stated :
"The situation we have today is absurd,There is a huge and growing industry in Asia that arranges tourist visas for pregnant women so they can fly to the United States and give birth to an American. This was not the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment; it makes a mockery of citizenship."
(Sound Familiar??)

The key to undoing the current misinterpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment is this odd phrase

"AND SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF."

The whole problem is caused by the fact that the meaning of this phrase, which was clear to anyone versed in legal language in 1868, has slipped with changes in usage. Fortunately, there is a large group of court precedents that make clear what the phrase actually means:

The Fourteenth Amendment EXCLUDES the children of aliens.
(The Slaughterhouse Cases (83 U.S. 36 (1873))

The Fourteenth Amendment draws a distinction
between the children of aliens and children of citizens.
(Minor v. Happersett (88 U.S. 162 (1874))

The phrase "subject to the jurisdiction"
REQUIRES "Direct And Immediate ALLEGIENCE"
to the United States, NOT just physical presence.
(Elk v. Wilkins 112 U.S. 94 (1884))

There is NO automatic birthright citizenship in a particular case.
(Wong Kim Ark Case, 169 U.S. 649 (1898))

The Supreme Court has NEVER confirmed birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, temporary workers, and tourists.
(Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202, 211 n.10 (1982))

There are other cases referring to minor details of the question.

Answer 2

YOU, are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. I like your thinking.

Five years is prison for those who employ illegal aliens would be another rememdy.

Mexico has troops on its southern border, Mexico offers two(2) years in prison for people who try to live in Mexico illegally. Mexico is invading the USA. Many in Mexico think they can return the SW US to Mexico by populating it.

Even if the SW was "given" to Mexico, their corrupt government would turn it into a poverty stricken environment within ten years(my opinion). Castillian descendants have the money and the power in Mexico, who is president is of little consequence, their revolutions prove that. Mexico is not a friend of the USA, actions prove that.

Who will do the work??? The same people who did the work before the invasion.

Answer 3

Yes, amend the 14th amendment. In Sweden the child has the same citizenship as the mother no ifs ands or buts. The 14th amendment was written as a response to slavery. And needs to be updated.

Answer 4

They have no spine. They're too afraid of offending someone who shouldn't be here in the first place. They don't even care that they're offending Americans by taking away our rights and giving more to illegals. If it takes offending someone to get the job done then offend them and send em home.

Answer 5

a. The federal structure does no longer legislate academic rules. it is left as a lot because the guy States. b. modification 10: "The powers no longer delegated to usa of america by the structure, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the individuals." c. See above.

Answer 6

Not necessary. An executive order from the President to uphold the 14th amendment would do it.

Answer 7

How bout we take away your citizenship because unless you are American Indian, Im sure one of your great great great grandparents was an immigrant to.

Answer 8

Sure, if our senate wasnt incompetent.

Answer 9

Yes, it would help alot.