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Anchor babies should not be a thing, so no I don't care if an illegal immigrant family with an anchor baby is deported. There is some debate as to whether the p
by wakawaka28 2y ago
Anchor babies should not be a thing, so no I don't care if an illegal immigrant family with an anchor baby is deported. There is some debate as to whether the popular interpretation of the 14th Amendment is even correct to begin with, as it was obviously intended to grant citizenship to ex-slaves and not criminal aliens.
- nradov 2y agoA child born in the USA is not a "criminal alien" regardless of the circumstances of their birth. There is no federal criminal law against being born. The parents could be legally classified as criminal aliens in some cases but that has no bearing on the child as a legally separate person.
- wakawaka28 2y agoAs a child is dependent on its parents, they must go with their parents. I don't think they automatically deserve citizenship just because their parents happened to sneak into the country, and their parents shouldn't be given a pass just because they dared to break our laws to get in and drop a child on us.
- pjc50 2y agoAnd people wonder why the birth rate is down when children are demonized this much.
- yladiz 2y agoThere is no debate, and framing it as such is disingenuous. The interpretation not “popular”, it’s been adjudicated in courts time and time again, for well over a hundred years, and there are basically no exceptions to the birthright clause of the amendment. Of course this doesn’t strictly guarantee the current Supreme Court will follow precedent, but given the fact it’s part of the constitution and not just a law, and that it’s been in multiple court cases with a lot of precedent, I assume they would reject that interpretation and make it clear to change it requires another amendment, which is extremely unlikely in the current government.