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Originally Posted by detbuch View Post
"illegals who would be subject to foreign jurisdiction."
But the German parents (and I presume as well the Chinese and gypsies) were
legally residing in the U.S. and in Pennsylvania and were subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
There has been no Supreme Court decision that has held that children born to illegal aliens are citizens.
No Congress has legislated such a right.
So it might be possible to strike down current birth-right for children of illegal aliens by executive order since it has not actually been legislated by Congress nor interpreted as constitutional by SCOTUS.
Or it may take and Act of Congress, or even an amendment.
Really. Does it make sense to continue to allow illegal aliens the automatic right to citizenship, or even just the right to take advantage of our system simply by giving birth here.
Should this even be a question?[/QUOTE]
NOT HERE LEGALLY is the clear distinction but useless arguing it with people who will not distinguish between "here legally" and "here illegally"
France did away with birthright citizenship in 1993.
Ireland was the last of the European Union countries to abolish birthright citizenship, in 2005. Through a referendum backed by nearly 80 percent of Irish voters.
Other countries, including New Zealand and Australia, have also abolished their birthright-citizenship laws in recent years.
The latest is the Dominican Republic, whose supreme court ruled to remove the country’s birthright laws in 2013.
China, Japan, Russia, South Korea—grant citizenship strictly on the basis of whether a baby has at least one parent who is a citizen of the country, as opposed to where the baby is born.
this guy in Canada rails agains Trump and Canadian conservatives for approaching the issue and then goes on to admit it's a problem in Canada....he never mentions or differentiates regarding "illegals" other than to say "certain immigrants" should not be scapegoated
"Birth tourism, the practice of foreign women coming to Canada to have their babies merely to obtain a Canadian passport for their offspring, is by all accounts a real and growing problem. Is it a big enough problem to warrant an end to birthright citizenship here?"
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...t-citizenship/