02-09-2008, 10:00 PM
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Re: Should birthright citizenship continue?
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Originally Posted by saltwn
As much a I would like to kick every illegal alien's a$$ before he/she started walking home at his own expense, I do not want the law changed that says a baby born on this soil is a United States citizen. I do not want the mother automatically a shoe in for citizenship either. And I don't care if that breaks up families. She can go back home with the baby and deal with her own government, or she can place the baby up for adoption with all the legal rights any other natural citizen orphan would have. Then she can leave.
That may sound harsh and I know there would be some "good people" caught up in the red tape too, but that's how I feel.
But as for the baby and anyone seeking asylum as a refugee of war or persecution:
This is us. This is who we are. If our ancestors left a dictatorship and swam, flew or walked to an American shore, they were granted U.S. citizen status. If my mother thought I would have a better life and swam the Rio Grande, dropped me in a corn field and deposited me on a door stoop, then she sacrificed as much as any soldier in the Revolutionary War. She earned the right for her child to grow up in a free land.
Call me corny. But this country really is the last best hope for this old world of ours! |
I like your compassion. The problems arise from the even MORE compassionate plea about the baby is a citizen so how can you tell the mother that she can't stay to "feed" them. Then of course the "husband" and the siblings and grandparents thus we have what are called anchor babies. Possibly the correct answer might be that at the age of maturity (21) the "baby" would get an "option" but then they wouldn't have the experience of being "American" while growing up. It's enough to make one wish for simpler times. I'm afraid that compassion is rapidly being forced OUT of society. Perhaps if charity (welfare and soon medicine) was not forced from tax payers many more would feel better about it. |