The Importance Of Illegal Immigration

     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.

On July 9, 1998, the government of the United States adopted the 14th amendment as one of the Reconstruction amendments. The amendment granted citizenship and was passed as a solution to end slavery after the Civil War. Today, there have been hearing about the government trying to manipulate this important law for many illegals in the U.S. In my opinion, I totally agree with this right; the meaning of being considered American is being born in the US territory. Moreover, this particular law it is used mostly by the offsprings of many illegal aliens. The law consists of providing an American citizenship to the infants of illegal citizens staying in the United States. For this reason, the babies should be granted a citizenship regardless of their

This article is a letter to the editor about the controversy about the 14th amendment and whether letting illegal immigrant children becoming citizens follows that amendment. According to the 14th amendment, a person must pass two requirements in order to become an automatic citizen; they must be born in the U.S and be “ subject to its jurisdiction and with no other allegiance to another country”. Senator Jacob Howard explained that the 14th amendment excluded the Native Americans and “persons born in the U.S who are foreigners, aliens, [or] who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers. Said differently, the amendment didn’t refer to what are called “ partial’’ jurisdiction, as “sojourners” and the amendment absolutely did

Immigration has become a very controversial topic that no one can stop talking about. From President Barack Obama’s Immigration Reform to potential 2016 presidential candidates, everyone is looking at different ways to amend our broken immigration system. Almost everyone agrees that we need tighter border control and there needs to be more regulations to prevent the hiring of illegal immigrants. Not everyone is sure what should be decided about immigrant parents, who are not American citizens, and their American born children. This topic has left people questioning the 14th Amendment and “birthright citizenship.” While some people have no tolerance for these children and want them out, others have thought of better solutions that keep the

Furthermore “if” you read under Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, it clearly references the following “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

A big issue that surrounds the United States today is whether or not babies born on United States soil are to be considered full-fledged citizens or not, regardless of the family’s recent migration into the United States. The children born in the United States to illegal alien mothers are often referred to as "anchor babies”. Under current practice, these children are United States citizens at birth, simply because they were born on United States soil. They are called anchor babies because, as United States citizens, they become eligible to sponsor their relatives when they turn 21 years of age, thus becoming the legal United States "anchor" for an extended immigrant family (Shopper). Thus, the United States born children of illegal aliens not only represent additional U.S. population growth, but also act as anchors to eventually pull a large number of extended family members into the country legally; moreover, a whole industry has built up around the United States system of birthright citizenship, thousands of pregnant women who are about to deliver come to the United States each year from countries as far away as South Korea and as near as Mexico so that they can give birth on U.S. soil (Anchor Babies, NumbersUSA).The original intent of the 14th Amendment was clearly not considering illegal aliens going around the United States laws. Estimates indicate there may be over 300,000 anchor babies born each year in the United States; overall, causing illegal alien mothers to add

There are three proposed actions to resolve the birthright debate issue: legislating change at a federal level, amending the constitution to revoke birthright citizenship, and getting the Supreme Court to change its interpretation of the 14th amendment. There are arguments for and against each proposed action. Legislating change at the federal level has already been attempted, in 2009 the Birthright Citizenship Act was proposed which specified that in order to be considered a citizen, a child must have at least one parent who is a citizen of the Unites States, is a legal permanent resident, or is an undocumented immigrant serving in the armed forces. Since its proposal the bill has not moved, it remains stagnant in subcommittee (Tuttle 2015); experts doubt its ability to survive court challenges if it were to become law and that it would quickly be struck down as unconstitutional. Those who oppose the law argue that it is fueled by anti-immigrant sentiments, and that putting such stipulations on natural citizenship is unconstitutional and is in direct conflict with the 14th amendment. There is the fear that if congress can pass a law that conflicts with the 14th amendment, it can pass

Today the Society is split into three separately minded groups. In no specific ordering, the first is determined to believe that any one person born in the United States is a citizen and which means their parents should become citizens along with them. These are the ones whom obtain “birthright citizenship” (Raul). The second are firm believers in the only ones that should be citizens are the ones who go through the proper process of becoming a citizen and according to the article in “USA today,” it states that illegal immigrants are “having babies as a way to obtain citizenship,” which too many Americans “cheapens the whole idea of being American”. The last group is the “other” the ones whom are completely neutral or believe in the

The debate and controversy are turning heads, making newspaper headlines, and circulating the public’s atmosphere, concerning whether or not to enhance the Citizenship Clause. Based on the 14th amendment, anyone, no matter what race, born on the proud red, white, and blue soil of America has the right to become a citizen of the United States, similar to the “Birthright Citizenship Rule”. The Citizenship Clause curtails the Birthright Citizenship in certain cases. For example, the offspring of diplomats, attacking soldiers, and specific Native American tribe don’t have the right to Birthright Citizenship Rule. However, how do we concern those who are travelers and individuals who are residing in the United States temporarily for employment? Many individuals feel as though this certain dilemma causes the honorary citizenship of America worth less than before. As if we’re handing out citizenship as freebies to anyone.

The purpose of this article was to inform other about birthright citizenship. The article further explains how illegal immigrants use their child “anchor baby” to gain citizenship through birthrights, also known as the 14th Amendment. This article also explains the misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment. There is no specific author but was published by Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). FAIR is known as a non-profit, non- partisan organization. Their mission is to acknowledge and aware the public of immigration issues, present solutions, give answers, and ensure the public’s voice is heard. Since their mission is to inform the public, this article is easy and useful for the general public. The article explains certain terms

The writer want the reader to believe that it is inappropriate to send back illegal immigrant back home. The “14th Amendment was approved in 1868” and any repeal will confronts huge deterrents. Constitution has repeatedly been held to grant automatic birthright citizenship. However, amending the constitution is not possible and such a law would doubtlessly be tested. The right approaches to fight with illegal immigrants should make it harder for illegal immigrants to work here. The government should set up more verification system for employers hire legal. Denying or revoking claim citizenship of U.S. born child will not solve the problem of illegal immigrants.

Within this article the main issue is that we as a whole nation are footing the bill for all the new children that are born here, where their parents are not legal citizens in USA or another country. This shows that in 2003 the U.S. had 2.3 million born here and

The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 (H.R.140), was introduced to congress on January 4th, 2011 by United States Representative Steve King of Iowa. In short, this bill strives to put an end to birthright citizenship for those born to undocumented immigrants, alleviating the related economic burden. However, the bill would still allow children born to at least one United States Citizen, legal resident, or member of the military to be declared citizenship, protecting children of those parents who have followed the law appropriately. American residents seem to be showing support for this bill, as documented in a telephone poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports (Waddington, 2011). The results of the survey showed that only 28% of Americans believe birthright citizenship should be automatic for those born to illegal immigrants. Mr. King viewed this response as an overarching desire from the American public to secure borders and to start utilizing the fourteenth amendment in a different manner.

In addition, the United States is created by a diversity of immigrant cultures. Currently, “approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States” [Debate pg. 592]. Changing or repealing the fourteenth amendment, will leave many U.S citizens, children of immigrants stateless without an origin of birth. For example, Chinese came to the United States to work as

I want to say, that I really enjoy reading your post you point out very important points, where immigration matter is a hot topic, and how our president have this controversial tactics, and way of thinking against immigration issues. We can see how his way of do things against the minorities communities such immigrants, he create this fearful tactics. This reflect how many of our Latinos, and Hispanic communities decide to left this country because of the fear that the government and our president put to through the media in order to prove that immigrant don’t deserve to be here. I would say I am against this tactics on putting fear to innocent people, which they deserved to be here, because many of those people help to our economy in many different ways.