Do the United States change the right of becoming a US citizen by birth?
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Thats ONE Of The Issues Were Facing\nIf Youre BORN In The US  You ARE A US Citizen\nThe Problem Is That Many Children Are Born To ILLEGAL Immigrants\n\nAnd Without Health Insurance It Is YOU The Taxpayer That Foots The Bill For The Health And Welfare Of These PPL\n\nOur political leaders lack the backbone to enforce the law and are pushing a radical agenda that would eliminate enforcement of our borders and allow greater access to taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens. Now is NOT the time for our Minutemen to back down and allow advocates of anarchy to destroy the rule of law.Law abiding American citizens must say that we WILL NOT tolerate an open, chaotic border any longer.  We will not be bullied into surrendering to foreigners our national security, our national sovereignty and our rights as US citizens.\n\n In a post-9/11 world, the United States simply cannot allow people to enter the country illegally indiscriminately. Congress must give border patrol agents and local law enforcement officers all the tools they need to accomplish this task.  Congress should remove the “Anchor Baby” loophole in our laws and Those caught illegally entering the United States Should be automatically returned to their home country.  This is simply common sense.      \n\n\n\n\n\nI Am NOT A HATER\n\nNor Am I ANTI LATIN COMMUNITY\n\n And I DO BELIEVE That ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL\n\nAnd EVERYONE Deserves EQUAL RIGHTS\n\n But I Am Sitting Here At This Moment Watching GWB Fumble Over His Own Words Tryin To\n\n JUSTIFY  ILLEGAL Aliens In Our Country ...  He Said That Our Workforce Needs These\n\n Laborers ..  And Then He Said    ....\n\n    "We Must Make Employers Accountable For Hiring Illegals Instead Of Citizens"\n\n  And I Thought That If He Did That ^ Then HE Would Hafta Be Accountable Too, Cause We\n\n ALL KNOW That This POS Has Got A WHOLE GANG OF ILLEGALS Workin On His Ranch In\n\n Crawford Texas\n\n  He Is Trapping Himself Between A Rock And A Hard Place   Cause If He Lets The WHOLE \n\nGANG GO   They MIGHT Blow The Whistle On Him\n\nAnd If He Dont   He Stands A Chance Of Gettin BUSTED As An EMPLOYER Of An ILLEGAL \n\nWorkforce \n\n \n\nIf Congress were to pass a law that said, quite simply, that the CEO of any business that was \n\ncaught employing illegal immigrants went to jail for a year - no exceptions - then within a \n\nmonth there would be ten million (more or less) people lined up at the Mexican border trying\n\n to get out of the United States. The US unemployment rate would drop close to zero, and \n\nwages would begin to rise. The American middle class would begin to return to viability, as \n\nwould the union movement in this nation.\n\n \n\nAs I Watch Him Paint Himself Into This  Corner I Cant Help But LMFAO But At The Same \n\nTime It Makes Me \n\n                                         MAD AS HELL And Im NOT Gonna Take It Anymore\n\nILLEGAL ALIENS  Of ANY RACE/Nationality Are A Tremendous Burden On The \n\nHardworking , Taxpaying CITIZENS  Of Our Nation \n\n \n\nThey MAY/MIGHT Work.. But Many Do Not And Contribute To The Already High Crime In \n\nOur CountryAnd IF They Are CriminallyProsecuted, It Is YOU The TAXPAYER That \n\nSupports The Heavily Burdened Judicial System And YOU The TAXPAYER That Supports\n\n The Criminal In A Prison\n\n \n\nILLEGAL ALIENS OF ANY RACE/Nationality Also Contribute To The High Cost Of HEALTH \n\nCARE Because They Have No INSURANCE And Its YOU The TAXPAYER That Supports \n\nThe System That Governs The Health And WELFARE That Many ILLEGAL ALIENS Take\n\n Advantage Of Through Their(Possibly)Legal COUSINS Who MAY Or May NOT Be Citizens\n\n Of The US(ILLEGAL ALIENS Forge Documents Too...NoBody Said These People Are\n\n STUPID...) But They ARE NOT CITIZENS And WE THE PEOPLE Should NOT Be Made To \n\nSUPPORT \n\n (This Is A MAJOR CONRIBUTION To YOUR EXTREMELY HIGH HEALTH INSURANCE \n\nRATES Folks)\n\n \n\nILLEGAL ALIENS Of ANY RACE/Nationality Are A Burden  To OUR (AMERICAN)\n\n
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No and it can make the citizenship process move faster
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Born in the USA, citizen of the USA.
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It depends on how you become a citizen. Most citizens are born citizens, which happens to anyone born in the United States or US territory, unless they are born to a foreign diplomat and to anyone born to a US citizen as long as the parents lived in the US at some point.\n\nTo naturalize as a citizen, you must first somehow become a permanent resident, which can happen a large number of ways. You must then remain in the United States aside from short vacations for a particular number of years, depending on the basis for your permanent residence, apply for citizenship, and take a test.
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File a petition in the US for naturalization as US citizen.  Prove it by documents showing that you married an American citizen, had been living in the US for the past 29 years and had children who are  US citizens.
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The problem with The Fourteenth Amendment Is That it has been MISINTERPRETED  in recent years to mean simply that anyone born in the U.S, under any circumstances, is an American citizen.\nThis is neither the original intent of the law nor the way it was interpreted by the courts in subsequent decades. \nSome Americans speak of birthright citizenship as if it were an immutable law of nature. \nIt is NOT, and most other nations do not, in fact, recognize it. It is only a BAD HABIT that could be broken with a simple Executive Order. \n\nAccording to estimates, some 200,000 so-called anchor babies are born in the United States every year. \nOnce a mother has birthed a child on American soil, she can then seek to obtain citizenship for herself on the strength of the family-reunification laws. \nEven before this happens, she is very hard to deport, as the mother of an American, and the full panoply of welfare benefits is available to her, as is affirmative action if she is a member of a racial minority. \n\n"The situation we have today is absurd," alleges Craig Nelsen, director of Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement, \na group of attorneys and immigration experts that is trying to do something about the problem. \n"There is a huge and growing industry in Asia that arranges tourist visas for pregnant women so they can fly to the United States and give birth to an American. \nThis was not the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment; it makes a mockery of citizenship."\n\nThe key to undoing the current misinterpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment is this odd phrase\n \n"AND SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF." \n\nThe whole problem is caused by the fact that the meaning of this phrase, which was clear to anyone versed in legal language in 1868, has slipped with changes in usage. Fortunately, there is a large group of court precedents that make clear what the phrase actually means: \n\nThe Fourteenth Amendment EXCLUDES the children of aliens. (The Slaughterhouse Cases (83 U.S. 36 (1873)) \n\nThe Fourteenth Amendment draws a distinction between the children of aliens and children of citizens. (Minor v. Happersett (88 U.S. 162 (1874))\n \nThe phrase "subject to the jurisdiction" requires "direct and immediate allegiance" to the United States, not just physical presence. \n(Elk v. Wilkins 112 U.S. 94 (1884)) \n\nThere is NO automatic birthright citizenship in a particular case. (Wong Kim Ark Case, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)) \n\nThe Supreme Court has NEVER confirmed birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, temporary workers, and tourists. \n(Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202, 211 n.10 (1982)) \n\nThere are other cases referring to minor details of the question.\n\nthe so-called 14th amendment was never properly ratified either. \nIn the case of Dyett v. Turner, 439 P.2d 266, 270 (1968), \nthe Utah Supreme Court recited numerous historical facts proving, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that the so-called 14th amendment was likewise a major fraud upon the American People.\n\nThose facts, in many cases, were Acts of the several State Legislatures voting for or against that proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution. \nThe Supreme Law Library has a collection of references detailing this major fraud.\n\nThe U.S. Constitution requires that constitutional amendments be ratified by three-fourths of the several States.\n As such, their Acts are governed by the Full Faith and Credit Clause in the U.S. Constitution. See Article IV, Section 1.\n\nJudging by the sheer amount of litigation its various sections have generated, particularly Section 1, the so-called 14th amendment is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever written in American history. \nThe phrase “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States” is properly understood to mean “subject to the municipal jurisdiction of Congress.” \n\nFor this one reason alone, the Congressional Resolution proposing the so-called 14th amendment
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The problem with The Fourteenth Amendment Is That it has been MISINTERPRETED  in recent years to mean simply that anyone born in the U.S, \nunder any circumstances, is an American citizen.\nThis is neither the original intent of the law nor the way it was interpreted by the courts in subsequent decades. \nSome Americans speak of birthright citizenship as if it were an immutable law of nature. \nIt is NOT, and most other nations do not, in fact, recognize it. It is only a BAD HABIT that could be broken with a simple Executive Order. \n\nAccording to estimates, some 200,000 so-called anchor babies are born in the United States every year. \nOnce a mother has birthed a child on American soil, she can then seek to obtain citizenship for herself on the strength of the family-reunification laws. \nEven before this happens, she is very hard to deport, as the mother of an American, and the full panoply of welfare benefits is available to her, \nas is affirmative action if she is a member of a racial minority. \nA group of attorneys and immigration experts are trying to do something about the problem. \nCraig Nelsen, director of Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement: "The situation we have today is absurd,There is a huge and growing industry in Asia that arranges tourist visas for pregnant women so they can fly to the United States and give birth to an American. This was not the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment; it makes a mockery of citizenship."\n\nThe key to undoing the current misinterpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment is this odd phrase\n \n"AND SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF."\n \nThe whole problem is caused by the fact that the meaning of this phrase, which was clear to anyone versed in legal language in 1868, \nhas slipped with changes in usage. Fortunately, there is a large group of court precedents that make clear what the phrase actually means: \n\nThe Fourteenth Amendment EXCLUDES the children of aliens. (The Slaughterhouse Cases (83 U.S. 36 (1873)) \n\nThe Fourteenth Amendment draws a distinction between the children of aliens and children of citizens. (Minor v. Happersett (88 U.S. 162 (1874)) \nThe phrase "subject to the jurisdiction" requires "direct and immediate allegiance" to the United States, not just physical presence. \n(Elk v. Wilkins 112 U.S. 94 (1884)) \n\nThere is NO automatic birthright citizenship in a particular case. (Wong Kim Ark Case, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)) \n\nThe Supreme Court has NEVER confirmed birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, temporary workers, and tourists. \n(Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202, 211 n.10 (1982)) \n\nThere are other cases referring to minor details of the question.\n\nthe so-called 14th amendment was never properly ratified either. \nIn the case of Dyett v. Turner, 439 P.2d 266, 270 (1968), \nthe Utah Supreme Court recited numerous historical facts proving, \nbeyond any shadow of a doubt, that the so-called 14th amendment was likewise a major fraud upon the American People.\n\nThose facts, in many cases, were Acts of the several State Legislatures voting for or against that proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution. \nThe Supreme Law Library has a collection of references detailing this major fraud.\n\nThe U.S. Constitution requires that constitutional amendments be ratified by three-fourths of the several States.\n As such, their Acts are governed by the Full Faith and Credit Clause in the U.S. Constitution. See Article IV, Section 1.\n\nJudging by the sheer amount of litigation its various sections have generated, \nparticularly Section 1, the so-called 14th amendment is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever written in American history. \nThe phrase “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States” is properly understood to mean “subject to the municipal jurisdiction of Congress.” \n\nFor this one reason alone, the Congressional Resolution proposing the so-called 14th amendment is provably vague and t
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NO!!!!  Some laws should and can be changed.  The one that says you must be a Natural Born Citizen Of the U.S. to even try to get this job must always remain!!!! I was born here and stay here.  He came here to get Rich, He Rich and he Stay.
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If you are changing for school, it's important to document you are the from the beginning.  Go to the dmv, change your liscense and voter registration.  Uually citizenship is granted after you've lived there for one year.
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I understand that children born on board ships have no birth country.  I think they can obtain citizenship from the country or countries of their parents' birth. They would then receive the freedoms afforded in those countries.\nIf a person gives up his/her citizenship, they are protected by whatever immigration or refugee laws apply in the country that receives them, until their case is heard.  They are given certain limited freedoms, but not all.
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You can renounce your United States citizenship, but you must either do so in another country or be prepared to apply for a nonimmigrant visa. The site below has the process for renoucning it.
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You cannot become a citizen of another country and have dual citizenship in the US.  Dual citizenship can only be a result of being born that way.  For example, if your parents served in the US military in Mexico, as attaches for example, and you were born in Mexico, but your parents submitted your birth certificate to the US embassy as a report of birth abroad, you would be a dual citizen.\n\nThe Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo has 23 articles, but I think what you are referring to just outlines that if the Mexican government granted a deed to a tract of land to a Mexican farmer, for example, that the US government; despite annexing that land, would allow the farmer to remain on that land and honor the deed.\n\nIt did not extend the right for all Mexicans to enter the US free from control.
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I don't know for sure, but I think USA is the ONLY country to grant citizenship to a newborn child solely because it was born on her soil.
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Yes, a child born to a US citizen is automatically a US citizen, no matter where the child is born, you just have to file the paperwork in an american embassy in the country where the kid is born.
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You are a natural citizen of whatever country it was that you were born in.
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that will make u a us citizen
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Yes. I think the Constitution should be amended to include non-born citizens, that have been citizens for at least 10 years. Most of the people who immigrate and become citizens love this country more than people born citizens. Those that are born citizens take too much for granted, while those who become citizens work hard for it. They should have as much oppotunity as anyone else.