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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
Nothing Earth shattering here, Jus Soli is outdated. It's my understanding that most first world countries that still recognize Jus Soli have modified the law specifically to state that the parents must be legal residents for their child to be a citizen.
Drolefille- If the primary non immigrant Visa holder gets deported, his dependents get deported as well, unless they have their own immigrant status and aren't present in the U.S due to the primary's status.
I think that amnesty isn't going to come cheap this time around, so laws like this popping up doesn't surprise me one bit. I think we are eventually going to have another amnesty, but we are going to see some very strict laws to go with them.
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I disagree, I think it's part of what makes us a nation built of immigrants. I have friends whose parents were from Korea and who would not be US citizens today without the right of citizenship by being born here.
If the dependents were born here and are US citizens and it is found that the visa holder violated his visa at some point before the kids were born, do you revoke the child's citizenship?
As long as it is essentially impossible to immigrate here legally from a Spanish speaking country (that is, it takes an incredibly long time and the citizenship process costs thousands upon thousands of dollars) we will have this problem, laws or not. All that happens is you drive it further underground and put people in increasingly dangerous situations.
Regardless, the only way to change the constitution is an amendment, this law in Arizona will not do it and trying to pass this law on top of the also flawed "prove your citizenship" law smacks more of "oh noes the brown people" than anything else.
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