Ireland just changed its "Anchor Baby" regulations. That will help.
Ours is a part of our Constitution. It won't be easy to change.
The "born or naturalized" rule is in an Amendment, though. That makes it a little less firm, in my opinion :-). In fact, it would nice if we zotted the 14th Amendment completely and passed a new one that made some sense.
Ours is a part of our Constitution. It won't be easy to change.
Yes, that is true, and it will help!! Aine Ní Chonnail, head of Ireland's Immigration Control Platform, referred to Ireland as 'West Africa's maternity ward', and although there is a slightly racist tone in that statement, it was true pregnant immigrants would avail of that clause in the Irish Constitution.
When the Good Friday Appeasement was signed in 1998, we vote in southern Ireland to amend Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution of Ireland, which contained territorial claims on Northern Ireland, those article were subsequently altered to simply contain an aspiration to a united Ireland, which was better than before, but an unforeseen consequence was it guaranteed the every baby born on the island of Ireland Irish citizenship, so we had to alter that again by referendum recently.