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Simple solution: amend the constitution and ban the 14th amendments birthright clause. Are there any other countries on Earth that support people sneaking in to

Simple solution: amend the constitution and ban the 14th amendments birthright clause. Are there any other countries on Earth that support people sneaking in to pop out a baby with the knowledge that said country will fully pay for and grant all rights and privileges to that child? No. It's not about compassion for immigrants, it's about reality and economics. We have millions of homeless and impoverished in our own backyards so let's stop incentivizing the poor of other countries to come here and get a free ride on the back of our middle class.

tptacek 10y ago
Are you advocating that we amend the Constitution to strip the citizenship from a class of American citizens?
- postcarnival 10y ago
  No, I'm advocating we stop allowing anchor babies which incentivizes massive numbers of illegal immigrants to sneak into our country and pop babies out so they can garner the full breadth of rewards of a US citizenship. If you don't think this is a problem then there's not much to talk about...
- postcarnival 10y ago
  I have to be honest, it's pretty pathetic that my comments are flagged and downvoted into oblivion simply because they go against the liberal silicon valley echo chamber. True liberalism celebrates diversity of thought, it doesn't try to silence it.
  - sctb 10y ago
    We've banned this account for posting primarily political and idealogical comments. That isn't what this site is for.
    - postcarnival 10y ago
      cool brah! I hope you also banned tptacek for his numerous political comments... oh wait you probably won't because they are anti-Trump.
- postcarnival 10y ago
  yawn
dragonwriter 10y ago
> amend the constitution and ban the 14th amendments birthright clause. And replace it with what, exactly? That clause [0] is, after all, what created uniform national citizenship, and eliminated varying and discriminatory state citizenship policies. Even if one agrees that the "anchor baby" problem is something that warrants limiting citizenship to combat (highly contentious proposition itself), simply blowing up the entire post-Civil War model of US citizenship is a rather brute approach with wide ranging consequences outside the immediate target area. [0] "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."

tptacek 10y ago

Are you advocating that we amend the Constitution to strip the citizenship from a class of American citizens?

postcarnival 10y ago
No, I'm advocating we stop allowing anchor babies which incentivizes massive numbers of illegal immigrants to sneak into our country and pop babies out so they can garner the full breadth of rewards of a US citizenship. If you don't think this is a problem then there's not much to talk about...
postcarnival 10y ago
I have to be honest, it's pretty pathetic that my comments are flagged and downvoted into oblivion simply because they go against the liberal silicon valley echo chamber. True liberalism celebrates diversity of thought, it doesn't try to silence it.
- sctb 10y ago
  We've banned this account for posting primarily political and idealogical comments. That isn't what this site is for.
  - postcarnival 10y ago
    cool brah! I hope you also banned tptacek for his numerous political comments... oh wait you probably won't because they are anti-Trump.
postcarnival 10y ago
yawn

dragonwriter 10y ago

> amend the constitution and ban the 14th amendments birthright clause. And replace it with what, exactly? That clause [0] is, after all, what created uniform national citizenship, and eliminated varying and discriminatory state citizenship policies. Even if one agrees that the "anchor baby" problem is something that warrants limiting citizenship to combat (highly contentious proposition itself), simply blowing up the entire post-Civil War model of US citizenship is a rather brute approach with wide ranging consequences outside the immediate target area. [0] "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."