When it comes to the topic of denying birthright citizenship to the American-born children of illegal immigrants, I strongly disagree due to the reason being that they too are entitled to every opportunity and freedom that the United States has to offer. If we do proceed in the process of revising the 14th amendment and move forward with everything that wants to be done in denying the citizenship of these children it will greatly affect our future in the sense that our workforce will go down due to the working of the illegal immigrants residing in the United States, that would later be deported back to their mother country, and therefore decreasing and destabilizing our economy. When it comes to the efforts that are being put forth for denying citizenship to these children I feel it is more so cruel & unnecessary because we are a country that was built up and based upon a nation of freedom and opportunity. When one really steps back and …show more content…
The key word here is illegal. The Migration Policy Institute favors immigration of any kind so they are a partisan group even though they claim to be nonpartisan. If you end the birthright citizenship situation then you will have a good starting point to control illegal immigration. The fact of the matter is most illegal’s come here to work and have a better life. They do have babies while they are here since they are humans like the rest of us. We first need to have better border security. Then this country needs to set up immigration centers and let illegal’s apply for citizenship at these centers. We need a center in every county and parish in our county so we can start documenting them and make them pay state and federal taxes. Clarify the 14th as of today’s world. Remember this law was written recently after the Civil War when there was no such thing as illegal immigration, so how can anyone say this law gives law breaking immigrant’s babies the right to