Comment by russdill
6 days ago
Imagine being 18 and suddenly discovering you have to prove the citizenship status of a parent you've never met or else you'll be deported to a country you've never been to and who's language you don't speak
6 days ago
Imagine being 18 and suddenly discovering you have to prove the citizenship status of a parent you've never met or else you'll be deported to a country you've never been to and who's language you don't speak
Imagine a country extending citizenship to a whole group of people for no reason other than the location of their birth, and then allowing said people to access the benefits of citizenship, including the ability to receive welfare benefits, vote, and run for office.
That sounds like a great idea. The more citizens of your country the better. Note that US citizens pay taxes no matter where they live. So it's not a free ride by any means.
I don't have to imagine it. I live there. It's the richest and most powerful country on the planet. I hope you get a chance to live here someday!
I live in that country which happens to be the global hegemon.
Seems to work fine. Dozens of countries do this. It's not some weird hypothetical nor is the US some bizarre outlier.
The fact that a guy like Trump was ever elected in the first place would imply it is not working fine. Half of the electorate supports his anti-immigration policies. In an alternate universe where immigration laws were properly enforced he may never have been elected.
Further, just because something has never been an issue in the past doesn’t mean it won’t be in the future. The US is an outlier in being the only large and wealthy country that does this. Not many people are flying to Pakistan to give birth to secure Pakistani citizenship for their children.
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There is no problem having mechanisms in place for edge cases where the child has been abandoned, parents both dead and so-on.
I appreciate that you can look at the current political climate and imagine that such edge cases would be handled in a compassionate way.
yes because DACA recipients do not live in fear of conservatives trying to remove them from their homes. (this)[https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/during...] was literally 3 weeks ago
i dont agree with the person you are responding to, but theres a difference between not being a citizen and being deported.
This sounds dangerously apartheidy.