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[quote=Anonymous]I think birthright citizenship is an amazing thing and one of the best things about this country. I am proud that we offer it. I don't really care if people fly here to take advantage of it. If they plan to stay and become productive citizens, fine by me. If they leave but eventually their US citizen child comes back and becomes a productive citizen, also fine. If their child never comes back, it's no real skin off my back; plus they're supposed to pay taxes as adults unless they renounce their citizenship, so in theory there could also be economic benefits in the future.

If you want people to assimilate and become American -- whatever that means, it probably means different things to different people -- birthright citizenship is the best way to accomplish it. Denying citizenship to children born and raised here is a perfect way to create a resentful, violent, and permanent underclass.

Like another poster said, I never hear anyone complaining about Canadian/British/Australian/other white European immigration or white European "anchor babies." Only South Americans and Asians. I see no reason why those groups cannot become as American as anyone else. And birthright citizenship is the major way to achieve that.[/quote]

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