Should we change citizenship status?

Question

Should we change the guaranteed right to be a citizen if you are born in the US. Should it be only if your parents are citizens or if they are here legally. Should people born here only be given legal status to be here but not out and out citizenship. If we were to make these changes would it be from now on or make it retroactive?

Funny stat apparently 70 percent of natural born citizens, would not be able to pass the citizenship test. Second how retroactive do we make it one two or three generations, wouldn't that nulify the status of a majority of americans? I am asking this because I was born to parents who were resident aliens they became citizens a few years after. At the time they had to renounce their other countries citizenship because they did not have an agreement at the time.

Answer 1

actually that is what the law is already its being misinterpreted the guy that wrote the law when asked said it does not apply to those who are visiting or illegal aliens said no it only applied to the slaved and there children and those who immigrated here legally
there is a large group trying to get this to the supreme court call your Senate and congressmen do your research lets get the bleeding stopped

read these please

The jurisdiction requirement was added to the original draft of the Fourteenth Amendment by the Senate after a lengthy and acrimonious debate. In fact, Senator Jacob Merritt Howard of Michigan proposed the addition of the phrase specifically because he wanted to make clear that the simple accident of birth in the United States was not sufficient to justify citizenship. Sen. Howard noted that the jurisdiction requirement is "simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already." Sen. Howard said that "this will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons."



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.

look it up you'll find I'm rite

Answer 2

Change Citizenship Status

Answer 3

The constitution forbids 'ex post facto' laws, so anyone who is a citizen today should be same.

I don't think we should toss the idea of children born in the US being citizens. I'm pretty cynical, but even I feel it'd be trampling the ideals of the founding fathers. Still, illegals intentionally having 'anchor babies' is a troubling phenomenon, and doing something about it would make sense. Perhaps newly-born citizen-children of illegal aliens should be sepparated from thier law-breaking parents for thier own good - unless the parents agree to return to thier homeland, and/or repudiate the child's US citizenship, in favor of thier own. Or something along those lines, but preferably more humane.

Answer 4

I would go a step further. I wouldn't grant automatic citizenship, even if your parents are both citizens. Naturalized citizens have to pass a test and take an oath to become citizens. I think everyone should have to pass a test to become citizens.

In fact, I think they need to earn it, through mandatory military or other public service upon completion of high school.

Answer 5

Yes. The change must state that you have to have been here of a legal resident or citizen. No one should benefit from their mother being here illegally. Say goodbye to anchor babies.

Make it retroactive.

Answer 6

YES get rid of that stupid amendment! And it should be that BOTH parents are citizens for the child to be one. AND NO DUAL CITIZENSHIP. If you want to be an American so badly, then you give up any other countries citizenship rights you have. Start making it MEAN something to be an American again!

Answer 7

I say if one of your parents is a citizen and the other is legally here and you are born here. But then again. My father is a green card holder and has been since 1965.

Answer 8

the paper work would add a few minutes to every police report, and would add a few minutes from dispatch. Though that is not a big deal, there are several thousand arrests every hour. That means yearly, this would take a few hundred thousand billable man hours to tax payers? Times 20 bucks an hour...Is it really worth all that money?

Answer 9

I think we should make it harder to become a citizen - and we should not let anyone from a hostile nation enter our borders. Period