Do you believe anybody who is born on american soil should be considered a citizen of the US?

Question

Do you think they should recieve all of the rights and benefits that you and me get, including free education and madical help while the honest man pays for it?

Answer 1

While I find your question as slanted as 'push polls' usually are, I'd like to suggest that we harmonize our citizenship laws with those of other major countries.

My cousin had the fortune to be born in Switzerland to an American citizen father married to a German citizen mother.

Under Swiss law, he was not and had no right to become a Swiss citizen bespite the locale of his birth or that his father was (temporarily) gainfully employed in Switzerland (his international employer pulled this off temporarily).

When my cousin legally became of age, he had to choose which nation he'd be a citizen of ... America like his father, Germany like his mother, or France where he'd gone to school for most of his life and actually lived. [I'm told that he has a German passport but works in France under the EU laws.]


{Lucky bloke speaks reads and writes German, French, and English, plus Finnish, that I know of. Makes him a fine salesman in modern Europe.}

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So, to answer your question, I'd like to say that the citizenship of a child should be the same as that of the mother under law and that the child should be entitled to only the same level of government services as his/her mother.


:-)

Answer 2

I am guessing by the picture and the name you chose to use,that you are not a native American.At what point in history do you draw the line of who is a "true" American?All 4 of my grandparents were from other countries.But I was born here and I have lived here for more than half a century.I am also a Viet Nam veteran.What are your qualifications?By the way,what fine Christian attitudes!I'd cite verses,but the Old Testament Christians of the Righteth Wingeth,would heedeth them not.

Answer 3

Your question is a little confusing. If you were born in the US, then what sort of citizen should you be if not American? This is how most places determine citizenship: by where you were born. You can move somewhere else and apply to have different citizenship, if you want.

I was not aware that Americans received free medical help or free schooling beyond high school. What exactly are you talking about?

If an American citizen is living in the US, then they are contributing taxes and to the economy. Why should they not have free public education?

Answer 4

Most countries do not allow citizenship base on where one is physically born. The child's citizenship is based on their parents citizenship. American is way behind the times. Illegal aliens take advantage of this situation do to America's 14th amendment (which was for freed slaves after the Civil War and had nothing to do with Mexicans).

Mexico has a really bad human overpopulation problem. When 40 % of your citizens are bellow your nations poverty line and are having 4 to 6 childern, it is easy to see that Mexico has got a real problem. But in no way should this have anything to do with one crossing the border, legal or illegally, and having a baby (anchor baby) have any bearing in determing a person's citizenship.

If you ask me, I think America has enough people. Our quality of life is beginning to suffer do to having to many people. My commute to work has gone from 30 min. to 65 min. in less than 5 years. Most of the people coming to the US are not needed. America has been moving away from a unskilled labor intensive socity since the 1970's. 99% of the illegals aliens coming into the US are exactly that - unskilled, uneducated, poor, and having way to many kids.

Answer 5

Nope...

I think it should be via descent. If one of your parents are American and you're born in America you can be American (unless your parent's nationalities won't allow it and you'll be stateless). Otherwise you get women coming over, having kids, then bringing their hubby and everyone from their extended family along for the ride through one kid.

But this is coming from an Australian with British parents (both countries have enforced that same rule).

BTW We had that problem in Australia.. Hong Kong ditched the UK and reverted back to China so the Hong Kong women came over and popped their kids out. Australia retaliated by changing the laws and saying "you can have your kids here but they ain't Australian" and that's the way it's been since 20/8/1986.

Answer 6

No only those Born of Legal American Citizens, I believe soon the Supreme Court, will affirm that and those so called
Anchor babies will become Resident Aliens, like they should
always have been called.

Answer 7

No, the children of illegals should not be granted American citizenship as they are now. There is no place in the US Constitution that says anyone born in America of illegal alien parents is to be given citizenship. Many people quote the 14th amendment, but I have read it and it does not give citizenship to illegal alien children. The 14th amendment was written to give citizenship to slaves who were freed after the Civil War. It has been misinterpreted by two US Supreme Court ruling.

We must end the policy of giving citizenship to the children of illegal aliens. These children are called anchor babies because they make it difficult to deport their mothers and they allow the mother access to thousands of dollars in social benefits from state and federal govts.

Answer 8

Not if the parents are in the act of breaking the law! This law needs to go! Imagine running across the border to pop out a child in another country to leech off of hard working Americans.

Answer 9

Well, I have never been fortunate enough to get free education or medical help, but I think anyone in this country who needs it should indeed get it. And yes, anyone born in the United States should be a citizen. Otherwise, we would run out of citizens sooner or later :lol:

Answer 10

Anyone born in any contry is considered to be a citizen of that country.
LOL. Who is an honest man? " Find me one honest man and I'll save the world".