Do you think that children of illegal immigrants that are born in America should be considered Iegal? What if only 1 of their parents are illegal?
2007-07-13 12:57:26 · 17 answers · asked by Chicago 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I think the law should be as it stands today. ANYONE born in this country is a citizen of this country NO MATTER WHO their parents are. We don't require people to know how to parent in order to have children, and if you ask me I think that is way more significant than on which side of a border you are born.
2007-07-13 13:03:53 · answer #1 · answered by margaret o 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
This question has been posted so many times already, but ill answer for you again.
Why should they not be considered American Citizens? If you make them illegal, guess what happens, they "feed" off of the tax payer dollar, they certainly won't go to their parents home country. So you end up with what we already have today. A huge mass of illegal immigrants.
To make it clear to you let me give an example, we have about 15 Million illegal immigrants in the country. If we change the law and make the kids illegal. You now have about 10 Million more. And the ones to come.. ..do you really want MORE than about 25 Million illegals using up all the resources American citizens supposedly work so hard for???
Yea i don't think so.
Theres more problems that would come from it than any actual benefits
2007-07-13 21:19:36 · answer #2 · answered by MIX208 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the legal parent wants to stay in this country with the child, fine. But anchor babies are pathetic. Would you want to be the only reason your parents had you was to continue breaking an immigration law? Mommy's lil anchor.
No, they should not be citizens. Only citizens should be able to give birth to other citizens. If the parents become citizens and the child is too young to apply for themselves, then when both parents are legal citizens, then the children are anyway. Isn't that how it works with legal immigration? If they bring young children, those kids become citizens with the parents when the parents do. I think that is the way it worked last time I checked.
But to say " I broke into your country, now I get to stay" is becoming one of the reasons illegals come here and breed like bunnies.
2007-07-13 20:05:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No that is what we call anchor babies. If the parents are here illegally then they are not suppose to be here period. So that child shouldn't have been born here. I had a landlord that his mother was vacationing in Canada when she went into labor and had him in Canada. He had to come back to America through all the legal loopholes and had to study to become an American Citizen. His mother and Father were both American Citizens. How is it any different. These parents were citizens and he wasn't.
2007-07-13 20:06:38 · answer #4 · answered by nashua_princess 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
This is a country of immigrants, so if children who are born from foreign parents weren't going to be citizens then this country will be empty . Geeee many people need to go back to school and learn some history.
2007-07-13 21:41:16 · answer #5 · answered by Richard 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As long as one parent is legal... I think the child should be considered legal. But... If both parents are illegal, then the child should also be considered illegal. That's why the 14th amendment (which was meant for Black slaves) should be clarified to say, "No birth-right citizenship/anchor babies." All children (born to illegal parents) from then on, should also be considered illegal.
2007-07-13 20:19:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You cannot be born illegally. The 14th Amendment gaurantees that anyone born in America is an American - weakeging that guarantee would open the door to legislation designed to deprive Americans of thier citizenship and thier rights.
2007-07-13 20:04:11 · answer #7 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well if you are born to a citizen, one or both, then you are a citizen. But I am very much against the abuse of birthright citizenship that illegals have been abusing by coming in illegally and having children.
""You cannot be born illegally. The 14th Amendment gaurantees that anyone born in America is an American ""
Actually if you really read the 14th amendment it says ""All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.""
Illegals are not subject to the jurisdisction, this amendment has been used as a loophole when really it obviously was not meant how its being used.
It needs to be challenged and a supreme court clarification made.
2007-07-13 20:03:17 · answer #8 · answered by sociald 7 · 6⤊ 3⤋
NO, if the mother of the child is legal, then fine. If we said that any child born here is a legal citizen then we would have even more people coming over our borders while pregnant just hoping for citizenship. They would be in our hospitals having babies with no means of paying and our medical costs would be even more insane. Not to mention the fact of who would feed these babies? Welfare?? Do we really need to watch our checks shrink more than they are?
2007-07-13 20:42:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Illegal parents = illegal children. If the mom is a US citizen then the kid is a US citizen.
2007-07-14 06:28:21 · answer #10 · answered by Marilyn T 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋