Re:Notes from November 28 Meetup of Bay Area Tech Solidarity
by postcarnival on Friday December 02, 2016 @03:57PM
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Simple solution: amend the constitution and ban the 14th amendments birthright clause. Are there any other countries on Earth that support people sneaking in to pop out a baby with the knowledge that said country will fully pay for and grant all rights and privileges to that child? No. It's not about compassion for immigrants, it's about reality and economics. We have millions of homeless and impoverished in our own backyards so let's stop incentivizing the poor of other countries to come here and get a free ride on the back of our middle class.
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Re:Notes from November 28 Meetup of Bay Area Tech Solidarity
by dragonwriter on Friday December 02, 2016 @04:33PM
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> amend the constitution and ban the 14th amendments birthright clause.
And replace it with what, exactly? That clause [0] is, after all, what created uniform national citizenship, and eliminated varying and discriminatory state citizenship policies. Even if one agrees that the "anchor baby" problem is something that warrants limiting citizenship to combat (highly contentious proposition itself), simply blowing up the entire post-Civil War model of US citizenship is a rather brute approach with wide ranging consequences outside the immediate target area.
[0] "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."
Re:Notes from November 28 Meetup of Bay Area Tech Solidarity
by tptacek on Friday December 02, 2016 @04:22PM
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Are you advocating that we amend the Constitution to strip the citizenship from a class of American citizens?
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