"What in the world are anchor babies?" I asked myself as I read the newspaper article a few minutes ago.
It turns out that these are all the children born to 1 or 2 illegal immigrants. Up until now, the state has given automatic citizenship to both the country & the state where they reside due to those children being born here in the U.S.
However, (big shocker...drumroll please) government is considering changing this part of the 14th amendment to deny birth certificates to children born in Arizona (why us again, right?!) unless they can show that at least one parent is in this country legally.
What do you think of this matter?
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Though I must say I'm in favor of this (I know, I know "what?!"-hear me out), the greater good of the country & what it stands for definitely outweighs my personal opinion.
POSITIVES in implementing:
-if the parents are deported, the children will too which means they won't be given up for adoption or be forced to live with other family members
-it would eliminate the drama associated with people getting pregnant with the sole purpose of achieving citizenship from their partner &/or having a family torn apart
-it would make illegal immigrants think twice before crossing the border in hopes for their children's future; this would eliminate the unecessary deaths those people suffer in trying to achieve that dream
NEGATIVES:
-we are going back to the roots of what this country believes in. Anyone born in the U.S. is a legal citizen of the country!! What does the citizenship of the parent have to do with it?!!
-how is it a child's fault that they are born here? Denying them that right is ludicrous.
-if we give in to this change to the amendment, what other rights will we be giving up?!!
I call bullshit. That's all I'm saying.
"The truth is that majority of immigrants come to the U.S. to work, to reunite with their families, or to flee persecution—not to have children. Some immigrants do, in fact, have children in the U.S. and some of those families are mixed status families, but suggesting that undocumented immigrants anchor themselves here through childbirth is just false.
As Senator John Kerry (D-MA) pointed out in a recent editorial, undocumented parents with U.S.-born children have to wait decades to apply for family-sponsored citizenship:
There is no epidemic of people “flying in” just to have their children born as U.S. citizens — and every senator knows it. Just as they know it takes more than two decades for a child born in America to sponsor anyone for immigration — which means no back door for undocumented parents to become citizens on the sly.
Denying birthright citizenship is not a solution to illegal immigration—it will not discourage unauthorized immigrants from coming to the U.S., and it will not encourage those already here to leave. Furthermore, it would force all American parents—not just immigrants—to prove the citizenship of their children through a cumbersome and expensive bureaucratic process. But conservative fear-mongers would rather rally their troops with false messaging and mischaracterizations than actually solve our immigration problem."
http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/08/13/reframing-the-birthright-citizenship-debate-with-facts/
All the attempts at solving the issue of immigration and drugs are pointless.
People are going to continue smuggling humans & drugs alike as long as they can do it even if there is a high danger of death/being caught.
The laws are simply making that danger higher & forcing all U.S. citizens to give up their rights to government.
I wish people would just wake up & realize this crap instead of hating on each other. Illegal Immigrants aren't the problem or the solution to our struggles. Do something productive with your time & quit trying to distract us from the fact that we're loosing our rights!
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