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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s really not hard people.

Citizenship would only require at least one parent be a citizen.  That’s pretty much it.  So many other countries in the world have figured this out.

Not hard. [/quote]

So if one parent is here illegally, but the other is a citizen (what about other legal status holders? Green Cards, student visas, etc.?), would the children still have birthright citizenship?

If both parents are here legally but not citizens when they had their children, what's their legal status? If those parents later become citizens, would the children get their citizenship at that point?

I feel that this will get complicated quickly.  Maybe something along the lines of conferring citizenship to children born to parents who are both in the country on non-temporary legal status is less complicated?[/quote]

It is not complicated.  Every other country in the world has this figured out.

One parent here illegally and the other is legal?  Children are citizens.  Simple.  The illegal parent can be deported.  It is up to that family to decide how they want to remain together.

If both parents are here legally but aren’t citizens and have kids?  The kids are not citizens.  Easy.  Just like every other country in the world. Grad students who study in Europe and have kids don’t automatically get citizenship for their kids just because they’re legally in say Germany or the UK as students.  If the parents become citizens, they can apply for citizenship for ther children as well.

This really isn’t hard as everyone is trying to claim.  Every country in the world has this figured out and has already dealt with all of these scenarios.  It isn’t rocket science.

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Sure, it wouldn't be impossible for the US to switch from being like every country in the Americas to being like countries in Europe.  It would just take a constitutional amendment to change the Fourteenth Amendment.  Let's go.  (There are really no sneaky "interpretations of the language" that could work.  It has to be a for-real amendment.  Sorry not sorry.)[/quote]

Or SCOTUS could rule on birthright citizenship using an originalist interpretation[/quote]

The original intent was clear. Lincoln signed Act to Encourage Immigration just ahead of 14A being ratified. The Supreme Court has been ruling on this original intent going back to the 1800s. Unfortunately for you, what you think is the original intent is not the actually original intent. 1898 Supreme Court backs up what I’m saying. [/quote]

The Homestead Act of 1862 offered farm land to European immigrants right off the boat, and their children born here were to be citizens at birth. Everyone who voted for the 14th Amendment understood that they were going to fill up the Midwest and Plains with new birthright citizens. [/quote]

Yet all that time Native Americans born on US soil were still not citizens and that only changed with congress in 1924 decades later.[/quote]

They were citizens of their own nations.  Learn some history.[/quote]

Please cite what I said that wasn’t true so that I need to “learn some history.” Ever heard of dual citizenship? Because that’s what babies born on our soil can access no under birthright. [/quote]

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