Now that the GOP has the majority in the House, some believe that they can now use that to crack down on immigration. The biggest problem with this is that people are coming into the country just to give birth. This makes the children born on U.S soil citizens and in essence their parents who can live and work here now because of it. This birthright citizenship can be repealled a bit to help with illegal immagration. Link:http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/11/17/ingraham-urges-gop-to-enforce-immigration-laws/201587
This is a bit of a large if not unnessacary step to take. The birthright citizenship is in the 14th amendment which was ratified to make it so that all slaves in the country after the civil war would become citizens on the federal and state level. Trying to repeal it to restrict immagration is not what it was intended for originally. It was meant to give people who had been born in the country to become citizens so that they could exercise the same rights that every one else in the country could.
This is a touchy subject right now, but I agree with Quinn that repealing birthright citizenship would not be the smart move. It will be interesting to see what President Obama says in his address on immigration tonight; I'll be watching to see what changes will be proposed!
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