Should Children Of Illegal Aliens Be Deported With Parents?

Question

This is one I saw on TV and it seems like a "no brainier"
Most illegal aliens who have had children within the last 5 to 10 years are more than likely born on American soil making the children immediate American citizens.
So if you deport the parents, why do the children have to leave since they are citizens.
But who should take care of the children and why separate them from their parents if they are well taken care of?

Answer 1

It seems like a no-brainer to me as well. If the parents want the children to come with them, they should not be refused. Even if the parents want their children to stay, the children are their responsibility, and they shouldn't push that responsibility off onto the American people.

Answer 2

Children under the age of 18 belong with their parents. Illegal aliens should be deported. They should take their children with them. THose American born children are free to return to the US when they are of legal age and can do so in accordance with the laws of our country.

Sorry, but taking advantage of our system by having those babies on US soil while you are here illegally should not be rewarded, and it should not be the "out" of following our laws.

Answer 3

Say buh-bye. These parents purposely have kids in the USA. What other country will allow us to sneak in, and not only PAY for the birthing of an illegal child, but grant them Citizen status as the parent's reward for breaking the law?

Wanna see the birth rate go down and our social services have a SURPLUS??
End the instant CITIZENSHIP to any child born of illegal immigrants. Treat them like any other country would, when someone crosses their border illegally...pregnant or not.
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Answer 4

Despite the fact that the 14th amendment has been interpreted as granting birthright citizenship It is not a legal interpretation. In actuality it is a myth. I challenge anyone to cite the court case which says that the 14th amendment guarantees birthright citizenship.
Anyone that has studied the 14th amendment, it's authors, and the proceedings of the 39th Congress will tell you that the 14th amendment DENIES birthright citizenship to the offspring of anyone owing allegiance to a foreign country.

During the reconstruction period following the civil war the view on citizenship was that only children born to American parents owing allegiance to no other foreign power could be declared an American Citizen upon birth on U.S. soil. This is exactly the language of the civil rights bill of 1866: "All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States."

Current interpretation blithely ignores the "and not subject to any foreign power" but again, name the court case that struck that provision.

Sen. Lyman Trumbull said of the above: "My own opinion is that all these persons born in the United States and under its authority, owing allegiance to the United States, are citizens without any act of congress."
Can an illegal alien be said to owe the United States allegiance? Can an alien be said not to owe some other country his/her allegiance without evidence?

The author of the Fourteenth Amendment, Rep. John A Bingham (OH), responded to the above declaration as follows: "I find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen."

Note the "of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty"

The children should be deported with the parents because they are NOT citizens by the intent and the correct interpretation of the 14th amendment.

Answer 5

They played the odds an lost,There is no sympathy needed for 1s that thought the amnesty bill would say them from deportation and had children to make it easy-er to stay.

Answer 6

The parents are the ones who made the choice to have the children knowing the consequences. That said yes the children should stay with the parents. When they reach the age of 18 they are free to come back.

Answer 7

Yes the law needs to be changed and if your here Illegal you and your child should not have rights to anything. If you are on a visa and you give birth then i can see your child becoming a citizen. But person who has broken our laws no way should they be given citizenship. What dumbo thought that one up? Must have been on a week long high.

Answer 8

Yes, no, I don't know. They are citizens and should be able to stay if their parents would like and they should also have the choice to take their child with them because it would be sad to see their children seperated from them. Unfortunately, some of these people have used their children as greencards, welfare checks, and a way to complicate deportations. We need to figure out a way to stop people from abusing the 14th ammendment.

Answer 9

No brainer is right. The parents can take their children with them, it's their right. Any parent who leaves their child behind - guilty of child abandonment, parental rights terminated, and put the anchor babies up for adoption to real US citizens who will teach them respect, dignity, and patriotism.

Answer 10

Yes

Answer 11

Yes, deport them with their parents. Then they can re-unite their family back in the country they came from.