Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has aggressively pursued immigration crackdowns, including a controversial executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to undocumented or temporary visa-holding parents—a move currently under Supreme Court review. His broader immigration agenda, which includes mass deportations and controversial international transfers, faces legal challenges and could significantly affect the U.S. economy and demographics, especially given the large and growing immigrant population.
blueavole on
Couldn’t it be said that most American citizens have birthright citizenship?
We become citizens when are families immigrated.
This doesn’t include Native Americans of course who were denied citizenship and voting rights until an act of congress in the 1920s.
LSeww on
If anything, birthright makes illegals have more kids, not less.
WelpSigh on
Overturning it is just an absurd policy, on its face. Yes, it’s true that a lot of countries don’t have birthright citizenship. But they also have, unlike us, a functional immigration system in the first place. Our economy is heavily reliant on undocumented labor – without it, our agriculture industry would be uncompetitive and grocery prices would skyrocket. Already tight construction labor markets would get even worse. We actually have a shortage of native-born working age people. Even the “mass deportations” happening now are kind of a joke – if they really wanted to, they could do workplace raids at every major meat packer in this country and net more immigration arrests in a few days than they have net this entire admin so far. They simply understand how bad actual mass deportations would be, and they prefer the current policy of terrorizing people in blue cities for show.
Overturning it is basically like, OK, do we really want to now deal with having a permanent underclass of people who were born in the United States, have never known any other country, yet have no legal status? It’s bad enough as it is with people brought to the United States as a young age, adding millions more is a recipe for disaster. If we had a sensible system that actually provided a legal structure for guest workers and no longer had millions of undocumented people trying to stay off the government’s radar, it would be a different question regarding whether birthright citizenship is the right way to go. But that’s not what we have, and trying to end it on its own is counterproductive and pointlessly cruel.
BigDonkeyDuck on
I’m having trouble understanding this. Why would undocumented immigration increase if birthright citizenship ends?
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Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has aggressively pursued immigration crackdowns, including a controversial executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to undocumented or temporary visa-holding parents—a move currently under Supreme Court review. His broader immigration agenda, which includes mass deportations and controversial international transfers, faces legal challenges and could significantly affect the U.S. economy and demographics, especially given the large and growing immigrant population.
Couldn’t it be said that most American citizens have birthright citizenship?
We become citizens when are families immigrated.
This doesn’t include Native Americans of course who were denied citizenship and voting rights until an act of congress in the 1920s.
If anything, birthright makes illegals have more kids, not less.
Overturning it is just an absurd policy, on its face. Yes, it’s true that a lot of countries don’t have birthright citizenship. But they also have, unlike us, a functional immigration system in the first place. Our economy is heavily reliant on undocumented labor – without it, our agriculture industry would be uncompetitive and grocery prices would skyrocket. Already tight construction labor markets would get even worse. We actually have a shortage of native-born working age people. Even the “mass deportations” happening now are kind of a joke – if they really wanted to, they could do workplace raids at every major meat packer in this country and net more immigration arrests in a few days than they have net this entire admin so far. They simply understand how bad actual mass deportations would be, and they prefer the current policy of terrorizing people in blue cities for show.
Overturning it is basically like, OK, do we really want to now deal with having a permanent underclass of people who were born in the United States, have never known any other country, yet have no legal status? It’s bad enough as it is with people brought to the United States as a young age, adding millions more is a recipe for disaster. If we had a sensible system that actually provided a legal structure for guest workers and no longer had millions of undocumented people trying to stay off the government’s radar, it would be a different question regarding whether birthright citizenship is the right way to go. But that’s not what we have, and trying to end it on its own is counterproductive and pointlessly cruel.
I’m having trouble understanding this. Why would undocumented immigration increase if birthright citizenship ends?