The way to fight illegal immigration would be to go after the businesses and fine them more than the slap on the wrist they get now. The idea of making all 11 million illegal immigrants legal is pure idiotic. It was done under Reagan and that didn't solve anything. Most of the thinking seems to just try and patch the problem rather than address it with actual solutions. Crying that it is unfair to break families apart when they are breaking the law is about as dumb as fighting the war on drugs.
I'd just adress that by getting rid of the "Natural born" clause with "Born in this country while one of your parents is here legally."
Going after buisnesses would help, but I don't think it's a cure all either since a lot of people come here without expectation of employment from some under the table company, I think you really do need a couple walls on both borders.
I support changing the clause also. Some people seem to cry foul but I can't see what the big fuss about requiring at least one of the parents to be a legal citizen. I am pretty sure most countries have something similar to this or perhaps more strict. This would prevent the "anchor babies" or what I like to call the walk and drop (walk across the border and drop off the kid). Just because one can cross a border and have a kid shouldn't make that child an automatic USA citizen (when both parents aren't even US citizens).
No the constitution clearly states ANYONE born in U.S territory. It's not time to add exceptions.
Its an amendment to make sure white southerners couldn't disenfranchise blacks after the civil war. And it can be amended again. Its a law that doesn't make sense in our world.
It makes perfect sense. If you are born in the U.S, you are an American. Do you know of the negatives that can come up with by removing that right to citizenship for those children? Why we are at it why not disamericanize all anchor babies who as of now are citizens? Doing this isn't as simple. The discrimination that could happen to pregnant latinos at the hospital. Simply why should we change-just because their parents are illegal? The federal government will almost never change this amendment.
Nobody loses citizenship if they already have it. They are grandfathered in.
