Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
However, there are many people in the US who believe that whatever the original intent of the 14th amendment, granting citizenship to any person simply because he/she was fortunate enough to be born on US soil is bad policy and should be changed.
What Trump has done is put the issue on the agenda, and while an EO may not achieve the goal, perhaps some day in the future the 14th amendment will be amended to preclude persons born on US soil to illegal immigrants from being granted US citizenship.
Ellis Island is within US jurisdiction. How else do you think aliens can be deported from it?
If what you assert were true, Ellis Island would have to host rejected aliens forever on the premises, as the US Government would have NO jurisdiction to deport them.
I am not going to say it for the 4th time.
You are in denial. People at Ellis Island had not yet been admitted into the US (that's why they were there), and therefore not yet under the protection of US laws.
Presently, the US and Canada are the only developed nations that grant birthright citizenship.
Nonsense. Dozens of countries have Jus Soil laws.
Quote:
What Trump has done is put the issue on the agenda, and while an EO may not achieve the goal, perhaps some day in the future the 14th amendment will be amended to preclude persons born on US soil to illegal immigrants from being granted US citizenship.
It has been put on the agenda many times before. Who knows, maybe they will amend the Constitution one day, but the problem is that the Congress would actually have to do something other than whine.
You are in denial. People at Ellis Island had not yet been admitted into the US (that's why they were there), and therefore not yet under the protection of US laws.
Ellis Island was/is under US jurisdiction. That's why rejected aliens could be deported from it. Stop deluding yourself and DEAL with the truth.
Does a son of a foreign terrorist or an invader get citizenship if he’s born in USA during the time when the said terrorist or invader commits his terrorism or invasion?
The actual SCOTUS-established requirement is that parents have a permanent domicile in the US at the time of the child's birth. Illegal aliens don't have that. They're not even supposed to be here at all and are subject to deportation at any time. Their permanent domicile is in their citizenship country unless they have become a Legal Permanent Resident of the US (aka... a LEGAL immigrant).
Um, no. There are now companies that bring pregnant women into the US just long enough to have a baby.
Um, no. There are now companies that bring pregnant women into the US just long enough to have a baby.
Based on an erroneous, bastardized "interpretation" of the 14th Amendment that started just within the past few decades , as archived Fed Gov records clearly show.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
, as archived Fed Gov records clearly show.