> Are you saying any 12yo who comes and lives in the US for six years automatically gets citizenship? IMO, being able to vote in the country you live and pay t

> Are you saying any 12yo who comes and lives in the US for six years automatically gets citizenship? IMO, being able to vote in the country you live and pay taxes in is basically a fundamental human right. The idea that you should deprive immigrants who are living somewhere permanently of the right of self determination based on some sort of nationalistic idea of how countries should function just seems extremely misguided to me. If you don't want to let them in that's one thing but once they're living there and paying taxes beyond maybe a few years they're entitled to vote.