10-31-2018, 12:25 PM
(10-31-2018, 11:57 AM)Duchess Wrote: trump's first three kids were born to an immigrant.
I think I read that she did not become a U.S. citizen until like 11 years after she and Trump married, after Trump's children were born?
Since she was white, presumably a documented legal resident, and married to a U.S. citizen....I don't think most of the people who have a problem with anchor babies would want to deny citizenship under those kinds of circumstances.
They didn't have a problem with Melania Trump sponsoring her parents' citizenship when they were rallying against 'chain migration' for others.
Anyway, any attempt to change birthright citizenship would require a good deal of thoughtful deliberation. For example, what if an Iranian woman comes here legally on a student VISA, finds out she's pregnant by her Iranian boyfriend back home, and has a child on U.S. soil? And, how about an undocumented Central American man who has a child on U.S. soil with a Mexican woman legally here on a work visa? Or, an undocumented Somali woman engaged to and impregnated by an American man?
Trump falsely claimed the other day that the U.S. is the only country that grants citizenship based on place of birth. There are actually 30+ other countries which do so as well, but not the most developed countries. I think Canada grants full citizenship to any child born on Canadian soil so long as one of the parents is a Canadian citizen.