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These two cases should be treated differently:

1) A kid is born in the US with at least one legal permanent resident parent

2) A kid is born in the US without at least one legal permanent resident parent[/quote]

No citizenship for either unless at least one parent is a US citizen and the other parent is of legal immigration status[/quote]

I’m a direct beneficiary of birthright citizenship (i.e., was born in the US to two immigrant parents who were then on student visas and became US citizens when I was 12) and I think either the first option or the more restrictive option suggested by the PP is fair. Kids in my situation would receive their parents’ citizenship at birth and would become US citizens automatically when at least one of their parents do. If the whole family leaves without either parent ever becoming a citizen, there’s no automatic claim to citizenship. Maybe we establish a fast-track for kids who were born and spent time here as a child, but left the country before obtaining citizenship through a parent (if they return to the US and spend a certain amount of time here).

Given that US citizens are obviously eligible for government benefits (and while they’re not as robust as what you find in the EU, they exist), it makes sense to me to put some restrictions on who is eligible for citizenship in today’s world. The 14A was written in a completely different one, and just like I support updating the 2A for the world we live in today, I think this one also needs some revisions. I do think it is a big draw for potential undocumented migrants that any children born in the US will be citizens. Eliminating that will probably voluntarily stop a lot of people from coming.

I agree that the logistics of this change will be very difficult, and I don’t really trust Republicans to handle that competently. I don’t have any issues from an ethical or policy perspective, but that will be a big problem. [/quote]

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