GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Friday he would deport the children of undocumented immigrants with their families, despite them already being U.S. citizens. “There are legally cont…

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Friday he would deport the children of undocumented immigrants with their families, despite them already being U.S. citizens.

“There are legally contested questions under the 14th Amendment of whether the child of an illegal immigrant is indeed a child who enjoys birthright citizenship or not,” Ramaswamy said after a town hall in Iowa.

Ramaswamy is not the only GOP candidate to question U.S. citizenship rules. Former President Trump announced in late May that on his first day back in office, he would seek to end birthright citizenship by way of an executive order.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    131·
    1 year ago

    But the same can be said in the other direction: allowing automatic birthright citizenship encourages illegal immigration and is advantageous to Democrats because minorities tend to skew heavily left when they become of voting age.

    Hmmm I wonder why that is 🤔🤔🤔

    It sucks for the kids, but that’s the parents’ fault, not the US government.

    This isn’t the kids’ fault, why should they be punished by being denied citizenship? Their parent’s country is not guaranteed to give them citizenship if they are born abroad. Also if we start making things like this legal then, for example, what’s to stop debt from being legally able to be transferred from parents to children upon death? It’s their parents fault they are in debt the first place, sucks for the kids but that debt has gotta be paid somehow, ya know?