With millions of immigrants still entering the United States across the U.S.- Mexican border, the question of whether citizenship should be granted to children of illegal immigrants that are born in America has once again been brought up. This past week, President Trump has stated that he is considering trying to put an end of birthright citizenship, which means possibly revoking the 14th Amendment. In light of this statement, many Americans have been wondering what this could mean for the country.
Although the president has yet to comment on what the birthright revokement could mean for children of legal U.S. citizens, it is predicted that this would effect the citizenship status of roughly over 8 million children. As of 2016, the are 4 million U.S. born children with at least one parent who is undocumented, 1.3 million with parents who are both undocumented and 909,000 children with a single undocumented parent (Click Here). These varying statuses of U.S. born children of illegal parents have begun to make Americans think of how birthright revokement will effect each specific case of undocumented families, as well as U.S. born children of legal citizens.
What do you think? Should the United States get rid of birthright citizenship? Should it effect both children of undocumented parents and legal citizens?
I'm in favor of keeping birthright citizenship because it has worked for our country for quite a while. In addition, I think it would be very difficult for President Trump to change this on his own. He mentioned that he wants to change it, but his comments suggest that it's much easier for him to change birthright citizenship than it really is.
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