I know you receive citizenship with birth on US soil, but that wasn’t implemented because the state has some obligation to someone simply due to the dirt above which they were born.
The reason that law was implemented was to recognize the states duty to the offspring of the people of the nation. Do you really think the framers of the 14th amendment would agree with loopholes like “anchor babies”? Of course not, because while they were born here, the intent behind the 14th was to grant immediate citizenship to the offspring of the people who built the country. This is what I mean. Anchor babies were an unforeseen flaw.
It’s not arbitrary. You think it’s arbitrary because you have the impression that the US is just some economic zone with a basket of benefits. ITS NOT. We’re a nation of people. The nation and its people have no obligation to you or any other non member of the people. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO IT. Why do you think you deserve citizenship? You think so because it would benefit you, not thinking for a second whether you’d benefit the nation or it’s people.
Given that you view the country this way, you don’t deserve it either. We’re not a basket of benefits to be plundered by the whole world.
The duty of the nation is to its people and them alone. Immigrants come only if they are a benefit to the people and the people want them. The state acts on behalf of the people in this mission.
That is a load of bull and you are either uninformed and think your opinion equals facts or you are intentionally trying to spread misinformation.
>Concerning the children born in the United States to parents who are not U.S. citizens (and not foreign diplomats), three senators, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lyman Trumbull, the author of the Civil Rights Act, as well as President Andrew Johnson, agreed, asserting that both the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment would confer citizenship on them at birth, and no senator offered a contrary opinion
> I voted for the proposition to declare that the *children of all parentage, whatever*, born in California, should be regarded and treated as citizens of the United States, entitled to equal Civil Rights with other citizens.
If you actually read the history of the law, you will know that the actual intention for "natural born" is whether a child was born under the US authority or a foreign power. And since US authority supersedes all others on US soil, the law effectively grants citizenship to people born here.
And funny how much assumption you are throwing out about me right now. I am entitled to it and you have zero say about it. I know because people who have more authority than you granted it to me for the benefits I have brought to this country.
You still haven't addressed the fact that immigrants are more productive and contribute more than natives. That fact alone destroyed your stupid arguments and you know it. So you resorted to personal attacks and claims of "entitlement". A pathetic and sad attempt especially on this kind of site where almost any immigrant is much more skilled and employed in a much more prestigious position than the average American. But you want to know what the real American's ideals regarding people and their "benefits"?
> What are the words written on the Statue of Liberty?
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
None of this is about benefits. I am done with this conversation. You reek of being a nationalist and isolationist. The very foundation of the US is built on taking on immigrants and helping others. You aren't American at heart and the only reason you are called one is because you were born here. Ironic isn't it?
The reason that law was implemented was to recognize the states duty to the offspring of the people of the nation. Do you really think the framers of the 14th amendment would agree with loopholes like “anchor babies”? Of course not, because while they were born here, the intent behind the 14th was to grant immediate citizenship to the offspring of the people who built the country. This is what I mean. Anchor babies were an unforeseen flaw.
It’s not arbitrary. You think it’s arbitrary because you have the impression that the US is just some economic zone with a basket of benefits. ITS NOT. We’re a nation of people. The nation and its people have no obligation to you or any other non member of the people. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO IT. Why do you think you deserve citizenship? You think so because it would benefit you, not thinking for a second whether you’d benefit the nation or it’s people.
Given that you view the country this way, you don’t deserve it either. We’re not a basket of benefits to be plundered by the whole world.
The duty of the nation is to its people and them alone. Immigrants come only if they are a benefit to the people and the people want them. The state acts on behalf of the people in this mission.