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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I oppose ending birthright citizenship.

I favor stronger border enforcement.  That’s where we need to address the problem. If you’re concerned with chain immigration, then rewrite those laws.

[b]Since different countries handle citizenship differently, some children born in America might not have citizenship through their parents and end up stateless[/b], through no fault of their own, if denied birthright citizenship.  Are we really going to condemn a newborn to a life of limbo?     Which country are you going to deport it to?

Of all the rights we should protect, citizenship, as the guarantor of all other rights, should be guarded most strenuously.  Babies, who are both completely innocent and completely vulnerable, should not lose their citizenship rights as a class through political action.

If you really want to tinker with Constitutional amendments for citizenship, I think you ought to start with the American nationals in American Samoa.  I don’t know for certain whether they want citizenship, but I think we should at least offer. 
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I don’t think [b]anywhere[/b] in the world has the requirement that “regardless of your parents’ citizenship status. You MUST be born on the country’s soil to be a citizen”.

Most places do it by blood, jus sanguinis.

And a few do it jus soli, by soil. But those also allow “by blood”. It’s not JUST by soil. [/quote]

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