Pros And Cons Of Birth Right Citizenship

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Arnist Basnet Prof. Sherry Sharifian GOVT-2305-76427 July 28,2017

Birth-Right citizenship is the legal process of providing citizenship to every child born in the United States. This right was heavily backed up by Fourteenth Amendment which begins: 1 “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” Regardless of their parent’s legal status, every child born in this country receives automatic citizenship. This is a bitter reality which has captivated foreigners not only from the developed countries like china, Japan, Arab, Korea but also from the developing countries like India, Nepal, Srilanka, African Nations like Nigeria to give birth in the U.S. This

Los Angles has become the hub to give birth for Chinese. 2 They are plotting to enter the nation illicitly by paying off authorities and enrollment divisions to enlist their kids with the specialists. Maternity inns have been set up in many areas of the state and provide shelter to the foreigner families before the mom gives birth. These all are done in exchange of cash. The high living cost in china and pollution are the major things which are fascinating a lot of Chinese to give birth in U.S either legally or illegally. This is also due to poor officials in granting visas which has made more easier for people to come here. China, Latin American countries like EL Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico are the countries with the major activity. Citizens from Latin American countries enters United States in search of employment and make the most out of Birth Right

U.S constitution has had always guaranteed the right of children to gain citizenship if born in the U.S soil. This has attracted people from all over the world to get child in the US soil which makes them easy to settle in US. There are a lot of debate going on over the topic. Vast majority of people believe in reinterpretation of 14th Amendment as they believe this process is benefitting a lot to illegal immigrants. So, the people are pressurizing the concerned officials about the possible reinterpretation of 14th Amendment. So, People are against the process of providing the citizenship to child born in