America needs birthright citizenship like I need hemmorhoids
America does NOT need birthright citizenship of children of illegal immigrants.
Just muddying the water. We don’t want to get rid of birth-right citizenship, we want to give it to the children of people here legally.
Saying that the parents have to be here legally is really a pretty low bar. There are lots of ways to be here legally. But if you sneaked across the fence, that isn’t one of them.
Pascal-Emmanuel was a senior research analyst for Business Insider Intelligence.He's a freakin' Frenchman!He is also a business and economics columnist at Atlantico, a lecturer at HEC Paris business school and a mentor at startup accelerator programs SeedCamp and Le Camping.
Prior to BI Intelligence he was a reporter at SAI, Business Insider's internet page. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Forbes, The Daily, Le Figaro, Rue89, techPresident, The American Scene and even Fashionista.
In a previous life, he co-founded a venture-backed consumer web startup. He has an MSc in management from HEC Paris. He lives in Paris with his beloved wife and daughter.
Does France have "birthright citizenship?"
Maybe it does. It also has "no go zones" in cities and suburbs all over the country.
Some say that if they want Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry’s opinion, they’ll beat it out of him with a nail-studded baseball bat.
If anchor babies are a myth, then why were we talking about “separating families” a couple years ago? Are Mexican adults stealing American children and raising them? Are they adopting American children? If anchor babies are a myth, then deportation will not separate any families.
I think that we should discriminate between “anchor babies”, which are presumably from parents who entered the country without following legal procedures and those babies born to legal immigrants.
I realize that the current regime bends rules to the extent that this would not be enough of a distinction. However, this is probably the most reasonable cut.
If Birth right citizenship is so great why is it that none of the other countries have it? Hmmmmm?
As I said, I'm a Frenchman.That says it all. Say no more.
>>So here’s the other odd thing about the birthright citizenship debate: American conservatives saying they want to be more like France. Kudos!
Not everything about France is bad. We just don’t like the Cheese-eating Surrender Monkey part, which is the part that our Progressives want us to emulate. The Conservatives want to emulate France’s proud nationalism.
Can I go to Mexico and get welfare, healthcare, and food stamps, etc.
You made that up, Pascal. No one else ever thought that.
Bullshit story.We have not had a hold on immigration since the early 30s(IIRC).It was in place so as to assimilate the last batch into becoming Americans but no more.We are losing our country more and more everyday.This needs to stop now.Send them all back.Every last one of them.
The Week another DC left wing rag not suitable as toilet paper at a biker bar .
IIRC, the number of anchor babies is around 400,000 per year. That does become a major problem when ‘chain migration’ is also an extention of it. Then you get both grannies and gramps and uncles and aunts and cousins coming in.
That seems to average out at about 12 to 20 additional. Many of those get free healthcare, welfare, social services and education.
Yeah, it becomes a problem real quickly — because the rest of us are paying for it/them.
Sorry folks. Pascal Emmanuel-Gobry says we need birth-right citizenship, so I guess that’s case closed.
What really needs to end is Marbury v Madison and the supremes uncontested right to have the last word on constitutional issues.
The 14th amendment was never intended to grant birthright citizenship; the status of the parents had always determined the jurisdiction of the infant until the supremes ruled otherwise.
We have 3 branches of government but the branch that was supposed to be the strongest, the legislature, is clearly the weakest. We also have a federal government that was supposed to have strictly limited and enumerated powers, wielding unlimited power over all states and individuals.
Article 5 needs to limit terms of justices and have a mechanism whereby the states can overrule the Supreme Court decisions with a majority.
It's not very strange at all except to people like the author. For the benefit of this poor, benighted soul, it's because birthright citizenship was never intended for people to enter the United States illegally and drop an anchor baby.
I understand that children born to foreign diplomats who are stationed here are not automatically conferred U.S. citizenship. I think that goes for attaches and other foreign personnel as well.
OK then, precedence has been established. Treat the illegal’s’ babies in the same manner.