Should the Constitution be amended so that children of illegal aliens are not granted automatic citizenship?

rayb1214

Yes yes yes. At the very least, it should not â€˜anchorâ€™ the illegal parents here. Send them back, the kids can return when they are 18.
Better yet, no citizenship at all if the parents are here illegally.

The End

YES!

Sean

Yes !!

That's a great idea.

If I had a baby in Switzerland while I was on vacation there it would NOT be a Swiss citizen.

Beckon Hollow

absolutely.

JoeBob

yes

rlstaehle

As that was not the original intent yes. The intent was to give citizenship to ex-slaves. Which is why our laws need to be plainly written so they cannot be twisted in their meaning.

Truth search

Yes,now start a petition and you can bet it'll get mega signatures real quick!

RemembertheUtah

Works for me.

The USA is the only, ONLY nation in the world to use such a lax means of determining citizenship. I mean really, a 15 year old pregnant illegal in labor crawls across the border and pops the kid out on US soil and the kid is a US citizen. What a stupid way to determine legal citizenship.

And the USA is the only dumb nation to do it that way.

Yes, we need an Amendment to stop that stupidity.

William O

YES! put in in such simple language that even a lawyer couldn't screw it up!

Actually, if you had a baby in Switzerland while on vacation, it would be a Swiss Citizen. Okay, I didn't check that out, but how do you know the child would not be a Swiss Citizen? We all make assumptions about other countries, which may or may not be true. {According to Swiss law it would NOT be a Swiss citizen! The only civilized countries that use jus soli citizenship are the US and Canada!}

I do know that based on our constitution, that child would not be eligible to be the president of the country! Yup, the Constitution (Article II, Section 1, subsection 4) states that 'No person but a natural born citizen . . . shall be eligible.' The assumption has been that 'natural born' means within the boundaries of the country.

Let's say, that we outlaw children of undocuments or illegal aliens from being citizens! Okay, now how to you go about proving that you, and I do me you and me, are citizens? Place of birth no longer suffices, so how do you prove you're a citizen? Do you have papers to prove that you're parents were 'legal' residents? I don't. As a geneologist {you can't even spell it! It's spelled genealogist Einstein!}, I have 'evidence' that may great-grandfather came here without papers! We'll we haven't found any so far. Does that mean the his next 3 generations of family loose their citizenship? What about he wife? Women did not take citizenship tests or become naturalized back then. Instead, they were ignored if their husband was a citizen. So, nothing can be proved through her.
{If your a genealogist then you should know that the long form birth certificate lists where your parents were born. That would eliminate the question in about 90% of the cases. Add in the people who have naturalization papers, or other paperwork and you have eliminated 99.99% of the questions. Unless you want to go back and start digging up dead people to see if they are allowed to stay in the US...}

So, no, I would not be in favor of a constitutional amendment. 1st, it places an undo burden on all the rest of us, who don't do family history and cannot thus prove legal residency. 2nd {see above}, any kind of amensty for those of us who are 3rd through 16th genernation {that's generation} in America, would still require some documentation of residency, otherwise, it would have to legalize everyone who is currently (yes, that includes those 'illegals' your talking about kicking out and their kids) here. {we are not talking about your dead ancestors ! so stop giving us this 16th generation bull sh!t!}

I don't think Americans want to have a Taiwanese (per my sister-in-law) type of citizenship/ID card that shows 2 generations of family. {if it keeps the criminals out it may be worth it! Of course in Taiwan the penalty for smuggling is death. Over 25% of illegal aliens entering the US illegally are involved in smuggling so if we adapt the same laws we would rid ourselves of a lot of low life scum!}

Oh, in case you think I'm one of those families from across the border? Yes, in a way, my grandfather was a successfull 'Canadian' merchant fleet family on Lake Erie. He carried cargo for business' in the US, so he moved here.

Oh, I can prove my line back to 1453 in a German principality on one line and back to 1776 in the US on another. Start your research. You'll need it when the amendment passes. {That is of course if we want to dig up the long dead but we will just let them remained buried! You don't have to prove citizenship back to the day your ancestors came here! Your just using this cr@p to scare the idiots and morons!}

{If you wish to claim that you are something you should at least learn to spell the terms used!!!!!}

Micky....the resurrection

YES!!!!

m.a.i.i.

yes, it should be the citizenship of the mother.

MowYourOwnLawn

Yes, and we should sink all of these anchors to to bottom of lake powell. That is where all of the bottom feeders should be.

Vote for Short

The UK changed it years ago. Why not here? I am going with YES!

StoneCold

It does not need amended. It needs to be clarified that it has always not granted children born to illegals automatic citizenship.

Any child born in Switzerland is NOT a citizen. And Swedes take a vote on whether or not people, including children, will be a citizen.

legal lover :)

Yes, it was never meant to be abused by the illegals anyways, it was designed for the slaves and those days are over.

Loretta C

yes

Luchador

It's already written my dear! So my answer is HELL NO!

Crazy...Beautiful

U question is kinda confusing.

Do u mean children that were born on in the US by illegal alient

or children who was brought over here from their home countryby illegal aliend.

If u mean the first, then children who are born here are automatic citizen. whether their parent are illegal or not.

Chris L

Actually, if you had a baby in Switzerland while on vacation, it would be a Swiss Citizen. Okay, I didn't check that out, but how do you know the child would not be a Swiss Citizen? We all make assumptions about other countries, which may or may not be true.

I do know that based on our constitution, that child would not be eligible to be the president of the country! Yup, the Constitution (Article II, Section 1, subsection 4) states that 'No person but a natural born citizen . . . shall be eligible.' The assumption has been that 'natural born' means within the boundaries of the country.

Let's say, that we outlaw children of undocuments or illegal aliens from being citizens! Okay, now how to you go about proving that you, and I do me you and me, are citizens? Place of birth no longer suffices, so how do you prove you're a citizen? Do you have papers to prove that you're parents were 'legal' residents? I don't. As a geneologist, I have 'evidence' that may great-grandfather came here without papers! We'll we haven't found any so far. Does that mean the his next 3 generations of family loose their citizenship? What about he wife? Women did not take citizenship tests or become naturalized back then. Instead, they were ignored if their husband was a citizen. So, nothing can be proved through her.

So, no, I would not be in favor of a constitutional amendment. 1st, it places an undo burden on all the rest of us, who don't do family history and cannot thus prove legal residency. 2nd, any kind of amensty for those of us who are 3rd through 16th genernation in America, would still require some documentation of residency, otherwise, it would have to legalize everyone who is currently (yes, that includes those 'illegals' your talking about kicking out and their kids) here.

I don't think Americans want to have a Taiwanese (per my sister-in-law) type of citizenship/ID card that shows 2 generations of family.

Oh, in case you think I'm one of those families from across the border? Yes, in a way, my grandfather was a successfull 'Canadian' merchant fleet family on Lake Erie. He carried cargo for business' in the US, so he moved here.

Oh, I can prove my line back to 1453 in a German principality on one line and back to 1776 in the US on another. Start your research. You'll need it when the amendment passes.

GreasyTony

NO NO NO! for the 5th time.....GEEZ! please come up with new questions.

HereIAm

Hmmm tempting but amending the Constitution to do it?

I say they are American citizens, but must go home with their illegally- in- the -country parent/s until they are 18 years of age.

the Hammer

You want them to pass the same citizenship test their parents pass for citizenship?
Good idea...then we'll have a bunch of little kids running around that know more about the American government than half American adults.

Mr. Irresistible

NO and when will you stop asking this same question?

Greg

No. I do not like illegal immigration but if you amend in that way, you will take rights away from not just illegal immigrants. Leave the constitution alone.

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