There has been legislation proposed in Congress over the past couple of years to abolish birthright citizenship. The bill has not made it through the House of Representatives or the Senate yet. A Republican Senator by the name of Rand Paul cosponsored a bill with the Republican Senator by the name of David Ritter in 2011. This bill would only let newborn babies become citizens if “one or more of their parents was a citizen, immigrant with legal status, or member of the armed forces” (Graglia). This would be a very difficult way to make these changes, because the Democrats would oppose this and they could probably not get all the Republicans on board either. Luckily, there are a couple of different options to make changes to this right.
