Pros And Cons Of Being An American Citizen

     Those opposed to ending the clause in the Birthright Citizenship Amendment will argue that… “The framers' intent was to create an objective basis for establishing citizenship—birth—not a subjective standard left to the whim of a majority. The United States has, for that reason, never struggled like other nations to integrate those born here” (Fitz, 2010). The thought process here is that those born natural citizens of the US from alien parents will always carry the stigma of having been the children of aliens. This could cause more undue injustice towards these people than the founding fathers wanted. After all, they were all alien to this soil.

There are many things to consider when you think about Birthright Citizenship. I have two different perspectives on this topic that kind of pull me both ways and I do not have a strong opinion either way. My first thought is that yes if you are born within the United States then yes you should be considered legal, because you were born here and technically that is currently the only life that you know. Also, if the parents are illegal and they have a child it is not the child’s fault so therefore the child should be legal while the parents are still illegal.

Citizens of the United States, many of you may know about a very important event coming up that you are responsible for participating in. The upcoming 2016 presidential election. In this election the candidates running: your republican, Donald Trump, and his opposing democrat, Hillary Clinton. Although these candidates have conflicting views, I ask for your sincerity if you believe I am humiliating your opinions. Some of us may think that the best way to choose a candidate is straight ticket voting. Taking my own views into account; I disagree; you may vote for whichever candidate respects and values your view the most whether republican or democrat, and I believe that the outcome of this election will determine the success or failure America will have in the future. We must succeed.

In 2009, President Obama became the first African-American president of the United States of America, which makes him the 44th president. President Obama made a lot of promises in his 2008 presidential campaign that he has fulfilled, broken, or compromised. Many Americans know that a promise that a presidential candidate makes is a major deal because those are the reasons in which why the people vote for that candidate. Once those promises are not fulfilled, Americans will feel like the president has failed them. One of the major promises President Obama made was on immigration. He had 6 proposals only involving immigration. Four out of the six proposals President Obama initiated met half way, and two out of the six proposals were not fulfilled.

It is unfair that as a part of being born in the United States citizens automatically receive a citizenship. The citizens of the United States should have to go through the same process of non-citizens in receiving a citizenship. The citizenship shouldn’t be given to anyone as a right, it should be earned.

The number of legal immigrants in the United States grows each year. Migrationpolicy.org says, “in 2000, 31.1 million immigrants lived in the united states. 42.4 million immigrants lived in the United States in 2014.” The Immigration Act of 1952 ensured that America has procedures in place to apply for legal residency or even naturalization. However, the act has been amended so many times that legal immigration has become more complicated. Some argue that the number of undocumented immigrants entering America is directly related to the complexities associated with our immigration laws; but if you needed to get away from a gang, dictator, bad economic issues, or your family was in danger wouldn’t you just come into a country even if you were breaking laws? In the 2016, presidential election major party nominees took radically different stands. Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, offered an immigration reform plan that included pathways for full and equal citizenship, extension of the affordable health act and the promotion of naturalization by waiving the associated fees. Says www.hillaryclinton.com. While the Republican nominee, Donald Trump’s plan would allow for construction of a border wall. www.donaldjtrump.com says; detain and deportation of undocumented immigrants and create an biometric entry-exit visa tracking system.

The American government has become a beacon of hope for many, not just to its

The United States have been considered as the land of opportunity for many countries around the globe because it has been given opportunities to work, education and good standards of life to their immigrants. the most common immigrants are the Asians, the main reason of why they move is because Asia does not have enough jobs or good of standards life, making it a third world country, which may lead to the question, what do the two countries have in common? The answer is that since the United States is the land of opportunities many Asians are willing to risk their lives to enter the United States with only the purpose, which is to have a better life for them and their children. After the Asians managed to establish a good life in the United

Second Class Citizenship should not be allowed in the United States. One reason of why Second Class Citizenship should not be allowed in the US is because many Illegal immigrants are crossing the border and by crossing the border they are cutting in front of millions of people trying to get their visa's. Over the past couple years there has been a large amount of people crossing the US border. Most of these people live in neighboring countries to the US, such as Mexico. According to bccla.org many of these people hop on a freight train that takes them to the US. But there are also people who live in a country neighboring the US and want to do it the legally way. Some wait for years to get their visa's to go to a different country to maybe see

For almost the entire existence of the U.S., there has been America’s Spanish friend, Mexico. Americans and Mexicans have traveled back and forth from country to country for years without quarrel, even if there were some differences and conflicts in the past. Now, as the world becomes more populated, more people are wanting to come into America. People from China, India, Korea, and America’s good friend, Mexico. Only, this alliance may fall short very soon. In America, its citizens have learned to accept the flow of immigrants into the country; except now President Donald Trump has taken it upon himself to slow the flow of immigration. He has already stopped some countries from coming into the U.S. and made it a primary goal to have a wall.

In my personal opinion, immigration causes multiple debates. I think that Immigration should be allowed to a certain extent. It could be better for the economy, people could get a decent job to support their family and live a happy life, and there has been many businesses built by immigrants. There are many benefits for the economy because of immigration, it provides growth in the labor economy. According to National Academy of Sciences, they conclude that “Immigration supplies workers, which increases GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and has helped the U.S avoid the fate of stagnant economies created by purely demographic forces”. If the immigrants want to cross the border, there should be high restrictions because the U.S wouldn’t want to let anyone that has had a bad history with any drugs or alcohol.

As an adolescent soon entering the world of adulthood, to think about having the program I built my life around ripped out from under me is terrifying. In his article, “If You Want to MAGA, Save DACA”, Bret Stephens effectively convinces his readers of disadvantages of the immigration reform bill introduced by Congress this year by citing an abundance of influential figures and companies that stemmed from accomplished and uneducated immigrant backgrounds and contributed to America’s greatness. Stephens achieves this by employing appeals to logos, ethos, and pathos to persuade The New York Times’ readers of the greatness gained from welcoming immigrants to our shores.

Millions of undocumented immigrants should be allowed to live in the United States, and be able to do so without fear of being deported. Many of these undocumented immigrants come to the U.S. in hopes of finding new and worthy opportunities that they were unable to find back at home. This incentive proving itself to already be harmless and plausible. Which is why we should, instead of deporting undocumented immigrants, present them with permits to be able to work and an amnesty from deportation.

For me, I think that the fourteenth amendment should be revised to redefine the immigration status. Birth tourism should not be a way of immigration. I think that parents must first become citizens, then their children can count as citizens. Otherwise these parents will use their children's citizenship to stay in the United States to obtain benefits. This is not good, which is parents are use their children to obtain citizenship. 4 I think American citizenship should be harder to get. Everyone has an American dream, but we should be work hard to get citizenship, rather than using the fourteen amendments loopholes to get identity.

Dual citizenship, also known as multiple citizenship, refers to a person’s citizenship status, in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen of two countries. United States is one of the countries that allow dual citizenship. Dual citizenship arises automatically in situations such as when a child is born in the United States whereas his parents originate from a different country. For this case, the child will be considered a citizen of the United States as well as the parent’s home nation. Similarly, if a child whom are born overseas and his/her parents are U.S. citizens, the child will naturally become a citizen of both the U.S. and the country of birth, subjecting to the country’s laws.