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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have good friends in the US on work visas. I think they have Green Cards, but I’m not sure.  Their 14 year old and 7 year old haven’t ever lived anywhere else. [b]The idea, in the future, that children born in those circumstances could be “sent back” s[/b]eems complicated or disturbing to me. In cases where the children might not have family or know the language it seems pretty inhumane.

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Im reading it as - if you came here illegally, your kids can't be a US citizen. If you came here legally, but aren't yourself a US citizen, they can be a US citizen.[/quote]

No, the EO is specific in allowing citizenship only for children of US citizens and permanent residents.  Guest workers, though they are here legally, are not eligible. [/quote]
Work visas are dual intent. People on work visas can apply for green cards, and many do.[/quote]

They can't apply, employers must sponsor and it's not automatic at all. [/quote]
Not automatic, but not especially hard, either.
Most people on H1 visas eventually get Green cards and American citizenship. Absent criminal history it takes exceptional bad luck not to convert a skilled worker visa into a Green card status for self, spouse and kids. [/quote]

All it takes is one unwilling employer.[/quote]
Citizenship is a privilege, not a right.
Even legal guest workers are not automatically entitled to US citizenship, illegal aliens - even less so.[/quote]

That's correct. And thanks to that privilege, you now have a foreign-born First Lady, a second lady who was born in the US to foreigners on student visas, and a shadow president who was born in South Africa and later attained US citizenship despite having committed visa fraud at some point. [/quote]

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