I think if the parents are a citizen yes and if not No way.,
2007-05-15 03:04:40 · 32 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Automatic birth right citizenship for children of illegal aliens is a misrepresentation of the 14th amendment and needs to be stopped.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment XIV) is one of the post-Civil War amendments (known as the Reconstruction Amendments), intended to secure rights for former slaves. It includes the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses among others. It was proposed on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868.[1] It is now regarded as one of the most important components of the Constitution.
The amendment provides a broad definition of national citizenship, overturning the Dred Scott case, which excluded African Americans. It requires the states to provide equal protection under the law to all persons within their jurisdictions, and was used in the mid-20th century to dismantle legal segregation, as in Brown v. Board of Education. Its Due Process Clause has driven many important and controversial cases around privacy rights, abortion (see Roe v. Wade), and other issues.
It had nothing to do with immigration or birth rights for illegal aliens children. And it hasnt always been this way .
2007-05-15 03:15:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋
The US Constitution has been perverted by lack of enforcement of this very very clear issue. Today, people in general believe that if a child is born within the US borders they are US Citizens. The Constitution does not make any such provision. Only if we raise heck with the government, will this assumptive citizenship be stopped! Only children of persons 'under the jurisdiction of US law' are truly 'natural born' citizens. Illegals' offspring do not qualify under this at all, but these are actually getting all the benefits of citizenship. Write your congress people and raise holy heck!!
2007-05-15 03:44:22 · answer #2 · answered by Blitzpup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are not making any sense, than how do those parents get citizenship, would you just start the law now? And why is it so upsetting to you? what do you care? If things were according to you that would mean that only Americans children are American , what about immigration? What about children of immigrants? And who is not an immigrant anyways, all of us except the first nations people, so stop your ethnocentric whining. By the way, Miss American, "borned" is not a word!
2007-05-15 03:45:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
For a child born in America, if the parents are American citizens then yes the child should be a citizen automatically, but if the parents are not citizens, then no.
2007-05-15 03:08:57 · answer #4 · answered by ItsJustMe 7 · 5⤊ 4⤋
Let me answer this on a smaller scale so you can feel what that would truly imply. I am driving down the street with my pregnant wife and I pull in to your drive way, walk right into your house, she has the baby right in your living room, now I sit back in your favorite chair, put my feet up, and tell you (in my native tongue of course)go to the store and get my family some food.
nah, I don't think that is such a good idea but I guess the politicians are feeling pretty generous with the taxes we are paying them.
2007-05-15 04:40:13 · answer #5 · answered by Mc Fly 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree with you. Although the constitution states any person born or naturalized int he US is a citizen, illegal immigration was not an issue I think they could have forseen when it was written.
When an illegal alien gives birth in the US thier baby is automatically a citizen; in short the constitution grants somebody legal status via an illegal act. It sucks, but I don't see that changing anytime soon.
2007-05-15 03:13:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
You know what? You can be a citizen if you're born here, but your parents just shouldn't get rights.
So, if people want to take their kids home, or leave them with whoever in their family IS legal, or give them up for adoption, that's great.
But this business about letting six illegals stay here beacuse of one child born here is ridiculous.
Fine, you're born here, you are a citizen. Way it's always been.
But we need to find ways to discourage and nearly eliminate the ABUSE of our kindness in other respects.
2007-05-15 03:14:23 · answer #7 · answered by starryeyed 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
That is a really stupid thing, if you go back to hundreds of years back nobody is a citizen then, because the only ones that belong to this country are the Indians!!!!, the rest immigrated here.
2007-05-15 03:51:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Too bad we can't just go by IQ.
Or maybe a test about what a democracy is.
Or perhaps you must write a paper about the constitution.
When did your family immigrate to the US?
2007-05-15 03:37:55 · answer #9 · answered by justagirl33552 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Only if the parents are legal citizens of the United states.
2007-05-15 03:08:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 4⤋