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Not defending Trump's policies or their feasability, but I have a question about this: > [Abolishing jus soli] [...] results in stateless children, and
by avar 11y ago
Not defending Trump's policies or their feasability, but I have a
question about this:
> [Abolishing jus soli] [...] results in stateless children, and
> the problem of trying to deport people from the US to Mexico who
> aren't Mexican nationals either.
If the US abolished birthright citizenship and a child were born to
Mexican parents in the U.S. isn't that child eligable for Mexican
citizenship? Birthright citizenship isn't a thing in e.g. Europe and
that's how this works there, it doesn't result in stateless children,
it just results in children needing to be registered in their parent's
country of origin.
- pjc50 11y agoIt's more of a practical problem: if you're trying to deport someone forcibly, they still need to go through immigration in the country they're being deported to, and you need to establish somehow which country to deport them to without their cooperation. This has caused problems for some European deportations. I believe at the moment Mexico accepts US deportees, but they don't have to make it easy for the US to dump a load of people at the border saying "these guys look Mexican, you can have them back". Anyway, it contravenes the 14th Amendment. (The EU has article 8 instead, which means that in practice you have to deport a whole family or not at all).