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Originally Posted by Kevin
Mexico and most other countries will grant citizenship to children of citizens. If their citizens are here illegally and have anchor babies, why should it be our problem? Why further victimize innocent American taxpayers with people who shouldn't be here in the first place who will be receiving thousands in subsidies? How is that sane?
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You're assuming the children are a "problem." They're citizens. 2nd and 3rd generations assimilate into American society. Even the non-citizen children, the ones targeted by the DREAM Act, are fully functioning productive members of society.
And furthermore how would revoking the children's citizenship actually relieve any burden? If they're here they're still going to get medical care for example.
Finally what happens when those non-citizen children have children?
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The constitution declares that Mexicans by birth—that is, natural born Mexicans—are:[1]
* those individuals born in Mexican territory regardless of the nationality of their parents;
* those individuals born abroad if one or both of their parents was a Mexican national born in Mexican territory;
* those individuals born abroad if one or both of their parents was a Mexican national by naturalization; and
* those individuals born in Mexican merchant or Navy ships or Mexican merchant or Army aircrafts
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First generation comes here, second generation is born here, third generation has NO citizenship (or nationality as Mexico defines it). None. We're a country of immigrants, some brought here by force, some by deceit, some for opportunity.
Immigrants are not why "the state of things" are bad. California is not going bankrupt
because of illegal immigrants. Yet they get the blame for all of it because it's easier than fixing the problem.
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