Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to restrict birthright citizenship

14 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by shscs911
(reuters.com)

9 Comments

sleepyguy

4 hours ago

America is a very good country and one of the few in the world that allows this. The problem with this is that many people come here to only have children (anchor children) and abuse the system. 1000's of people from all over the world intentionally take trips to the USA to have children.

Zero countries in the European Union grant automatic and unconditional birthright citizenship to children born on their territory.

iAMkenough

3 hours ago

While maybe a small scale issue, the solution isn’t an authoritative order that tries to rewrite the U.S. Constitution and bypass democracy.

sleepyguy

3 hours ago

Perhaps, but this is definitely an issue/problem and the US should model it's policy after the EU on this specific issue.

bigmadshoe

2 hours ago

Do you have much evidence that this is a real problem on the scale of the US population? I would imagine a tiny percentage of citizens were anchor children (i.e. people whose parents came to the US purely to give birth to them, then left again)

sleepyguy

28 minutes ago

Estimates are 30k-60k birth tourists. 9-10 % of all US births are to mothers who are unauthorized to be here.

Karthick81

4 hours ago

We want the best talent to want to come here!

sleepyguy

3 hours ago

It's not the best talent that is coming. It is folks who are coming intentionally to just have a child. Read the fine print, if you are here living legally then it doesn't apply to you but if you are crossing the border to have a child or coming on vacation for 1 week to have a child this law would apply to you. Our founders never thought it would be abused like this, they couldn't foresee the shit show it has become. It's why Europe doesn't allow it.