Immigration is always a hot-button political issue, and no more so than
in the months leading up to a presidential election. From sanctuary cities to
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to birthright citizenship, what
can and should be done to fix our current system is on the forefront of the
minds of many politicians and voters. The issue of birthright
citizenship is not well understood by most people. It has long been accepted by
many people that the Constitution automatically bestows citizenship on anyone born
on United States territory, even if the parents of that child are illegal
immigrants. Some notable scholars, however, have questioned whether this is so,
and critics of birthright citizenship believe that it encourages foreigners to
come to America, legally or illegally, so that their future children can become
U.S. citizens, along with all the benefits that citizenship confers, simply by
being born here...... In United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Supreme
Court held that a child of Chinese parents born in San Francisco was a citizen
who could not be barred from re-entry into the United States under the
xenophobic Chinese Exclusion Act. In that case, however, it was clear that the
Chinese parents were lawful, permanent residents of the United States at the
time their child was born.....To Read More...
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