GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Friday he would deport the children of undocumented immigrants with their families, despite them already being U.S. citizens.
“There are legally contested questions under the 14th Amendment of whether the child of an illegal immigrant is indeed a child who enjoys birthright citizenship or not,” Ramaswamy said after a town hall in Iowa.
Ramaswamy is not the only GOP candidate to question U.S. citizenship rules. Former President Trump announced in late May that on his first day back in office, he would seek to end birthright citizenship by way of an executive order.
This is insane and cruel and a just society would punish you by stripping your citizenship
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Of the countries that have birthright citizenship, many have similar or the exact same restrictions I’m mentioning here: One parent must be a citizen or have some form of long-term residency in the country. I am not suggesting anything here that isn’t being done by literally every other first-world nation on Earth. Unrestricted birthright citizenship is almost nonexistent in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Austrailia.
Since you decided to delete your comment before I posted it mine appeared up thread, I’m reposting it here
at no point in the history of america has “but yurop does it” been a suitable justification for a policy. We are specifically trying to do better than europe
…so? does this mean it’s good?