“This DEFINITELY needs to be removed.”
This will be difficult. The aspect of children born on American soil, thus making them naturalized citizens, is a real pot hole. You can’t just remove it from the bill because it will still exist. And it is possible for legal immigrants, invited here by the government, to have children that are then citizens by birth. So the kids are citizens, and the parents are not.
To actually change the situation, the 14th Amendment would have to be re-written. It currently says:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.”
Can we say, in some situations, “loophole?” And the price for changing it would be a real head-ache.
rwood
Sorry, but it is the ILLEGAL ALIEN PARENT(S) that are receiving the credit—-not the citizen child.
Foreign nationals are subject to the jurisdiction of their home countries and so are their children.
They aren’t just claiming citizen kids. They are claiming other relative that live in Mexico and kids that don’t exist. The IRS doesn’t question it.