12-18-2018, 03:04 PM
(12-18-2018, 02:43 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Anchor babies are considered USC's. Any benefits Anchor babies get is counted since they should not have been here in the first place.
Trump has gone after Birth-Right Citizen ship. We seriously need to switch Citizenship from Jus Soli (Soil) to Jus Sanguinis (Blood). But it will never happen because of how many votes would be needed in Congress. Which is sad, because this would be one of the safest and cheapest way to deter crossings.
Whenever this discussion occurs, why is it in relation to undocumented immigrants that are coming here to make a better life for themselves? Why don't the people pushing for the switch to Jus Soli ever invoke the wealthy people from other countries that have children here to try to protect assets? Why not discuss how so many wealthy Saudis have had their children here so they can keep assets in the country and for the members of the royal family to be able to flee in the case of the people realizing how shitty the regime has been to them?
I'd rather have people having anchor babies here that are trying to improve their lives rather than run from their mistakes.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
