The Pros And Cons Of Birthright Citizenship

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“To end the practice of “birthright citizenship”, all that is required is to correct the misinterpretation of that amendment’s first sentence “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.” From these words has flowed the practice of conferring citizenship on children born here to illegal immigrants.” However, according to the article Los Angeles and California are the most place you can see birth tourism, and it is mostly practice by the Chinese Country people. As a matter of fact, “the birth tourism will always affect the U.S system and resources, which is taking control over U.S immigration and citizenship policy by turning because some immigrants who are trying to get the U.S citizenship may have their several reasons of getting the citizenship, maybe because of dangerous things that might be happening in their various countries, which might be some people may be planning to harm them, so they came to America to save their life’s. Because they belief that America is more secured, than some of their countries, in the area of security. I do not see the reason why the U.S citizenship should be harder to give out to the immigrants who are trying to save their life’s from the bad people in their various countries. On the other hand, reinterpreting the 14th amendment should be a good idea, because the parent might want her own son or daughter to become a U.S citizen. in other words, “ a parent from a poor country, writes professor Lino graglia of the university of Texas law school, “ can hardly do more for a child than make him or her an American citizen entitled to all the advantages of the American welfare state” therefore, “ it is difficult to imagine a more irrational and self defeating legal system than one which makes unauthorized entry into this country a criminal offense and simultaneously provides perhaps the greatest possible inducement to illegal

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