So here we go. I am diverting from my plans on the blog I am working on for the next post (will be posted soon) to speak about something that just boggled my mind today. Maybe I just don't understand, but frankly, it doesn't take a fucking dead as a doornail perception to not realize this plan is just fucking wrong.
Reading the daily news, I come across another ridiculous thought confusing law being presented, and possibly get passed, in the state of Arizona, which aims to ban granting citizenship to newly born babies to illegal immigrants. If you have been hiding under a rock, Arizona had passed a new immigration law that entitles the police to ask people for their citizenship status upon 'reasonable suspicion'. I for one agree that reform is necessary for immigration, due to all the illegal immigrants and to improve the process of naturalization. I for one come from a line of people that are recent immigrants to the United States, so anything spoken hits at home. But here is a common sense perspective:
Do you really need to be that dull and ball bearing that something as dire as citizenship can be taken away if parents are illegal? They (referring to the babies of these illegals) are born on American soil, and based off the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment (Citizenship Clause) it states the following:
Amendment XIV, Section 1, Clause 1:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Maybe I am no law practitioner or even a scholar of any sorts, but I do have the common sense to think that this goes against the Constitution. Anyone born within the boundaries or is naturalized is a citizen, no questions asked. They paid their dues or were legally brought into this world under our banner. Frankly, I am ashamed to think someone would believe in such a thing could battle illegal immigration, but then it is the same state that banned ethical studies from school. I guess the train of thought is to be secular and conformed to nothing but a backwards thought process. I look forward, so anyone that says (quoting from the banning citizenship to babies CNN article above):
If you go back to the original intent of the drafters ... it was never intended to bestow citizenship upon (illegal) aliens
They should just pass along with the tumbleweeds of the burning desert. Take a breath of reality, the newly born in an American hospital aren't illegal. Go fly a kite and maybe you'll be able to get high off that.
That's tough, but with the number of illegals in Arizona I can understand it. Basically you have half a billion people who shouldn't be there and their kids get loopholed into being citizens. To put it in perspective, an organization for supposedly fair immigration reform (http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_research82b2) says that between policing, educating and providing health care for illegals costs that state over $2 billion a year.
ReplyDeleteI think maybe the intent of that rule is being abused. The intent is hey you come over as an immigrant maybe on a work visa or you haven't had a chance to become a citizen yet and you have a kid, the kid gets expedited as a citizen while the parents work towards it. Instead it's becoming you sneak into the country and your kid becomes a citizen even tho the parents aren't even trying to become citizens.
Don't get me wrong though. As a libertarian I believe you should just open that border, naturalize the illegals that are here and make it easier for future immigrants to become citizens. Then you tax them and treat them like any other citizen. No use in making people criminals just because they want a better life for themselves.