Where did the law start in the United States where illegal individuals could birth legal babies?

Question

After 911, anyone having children in the U.S. should be legal before having legalized children.
What do you think?
This is not discrimination since most illegal people came on their own and wasn't brought here for slavery (like my ancestors were hundreds of years ago). All of my ancestors learned English, we carried it on, and we speak it today.
After 400 years of Slavery the situation was different.
Do you think it can be compared with today's situations for immigrants?

Answer 1

Why do you have to ask the same question 4 or 5 times?

Answer 2

Anyone born on US soil is automatically a citizen.
I think that all illegals should have to learn english that is the lanquage of the US. Nothing makes me madder than a telephone stating "push 1 for english". Why do the aliens legal or not feel that we have to cater to them they chose to come to this country they need to learn the lanquage. I do not see or hear any other lanquages being catered to but spanish. I do not know spanish and I NEVER plan on learning.

I would like to comment on your ancestors being brought her in slavery. I feel that it was an atrocity, but these atrocities have been happening since civilization began. Romans Greeks, and almost any other civilization or tribes brought slaves from other countries that they had conquered. Slavery is nothing new.

Answer 3

The day the Constitution was adopted.

Ever since the founding of the country, the law has been that anyone born here is a citizen.

To be strictly accurate it even goes back before that, because this is just one of the many parts of American law that was simply the English law as it already stood that the US adopted 'as-is' - and the law in England has been that anyone born in England is English for over a thousand years.

Richard

Answer 4

Citizenship has always been determined by WHERE you are born. The person being born doesn't choose where to be born.

In most instances, kids born in a country different than their parents' citizenship have dual citizenship until the age of majority, at which time they can choose. In some instances they can keep their dual citizenship.

You don't have to speak English to be a US Citizen (i.e. Puerto Ricans, Solomon Islanders, American Samoa, Guam, etc.).

You are engaging in conduct that is classic in its discrimination against persons based on national origin. Let's not engage in any discrimination. That is REALLY un-American!

Answer 5

what does 9-11 have anything to do with this?

all of your ancestors learned English and speak it today... after 400 years...

do I think it can be compared with today's situations for immigrants...

your question makes no sense.

MAYBE this answer will suffice... i don't think slavery is the same thing as illegal immigration.

Answer 6

Actually the 14th amendment to the constitution says "1. 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.". So basically, if you are born in the USA you are considered a citizen.

Answer 7

I could not agree with you more. the left would argue that we can't kick American citizens out and now their parents have to stay to raise them. It's complete garbage if an illegal give birth in the US they should both be deported and the country they came from should be billed for the cost. I believe it would make some countries enforce the law and maybe prevent some of them from handing out maps at the border.

Answer 8

when it comes to immigrants, unless you are Native Indian you are also an immigrant. So maybe we should all go back where we came from. And the Bush administration wont have no one to push around. People are People, we need to stop labeling and segregating.