If you were going to become president of the United States would you keep the 14th Amendment like it is or would you alter it slightly? In the race for president between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump is proposing to modify the 14th Amendment to end its guarantee of “birthright citizenship.” This means that someone born on American soil to parents who are not citizens would no longer automatically be a citizen. The issue of birthright citizenship is debatable and it is a topic of importance in this year's election. It makes sense that if a person’s parents were not born in the United States that their kid would be an American citizen if they were born here. The 14th Amendment is a very important to how society runs, and it is
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All people that are born in the United States shouldn’t be guaranteed citizenship and not be given the rights that they deserve. It does not make sense that if a person who is born in the U.S. but to parents who are citizens to foreign countries should be a citizen. People from all around the world come to our country just to have kids that are automatically declared American citizens. That is why we are having trouble securing our borders and preventing immigrants from all over the world coming to our country. I am in favor of dual citizenship and support it fully but what the 14th Amendment says should be modified. That is the only restriction I would impose towards deciding the citizenship of a person. I think Donald Trump’s idea to modify the constitution is right and that we shouldn’t stick with the concepts that were in the original in 1866. There is a problem with immigration though and I think that a family who immigrates to the U.S. and has a kid should not be allowed to say that that infant is a citizen of America. The baby would have to wait and go through the steps to get citizenship of a particular country. Overall I believe we shouldn’t stay with the ideas expressed in the original and make it so that people who come to our country have to abide by the law and make sure that they pay taxes if they want to be a citizen and be given some of the best rights in the
All people that are born in the United States shouldn’t be guaranteed citizenship and not be given the rights that they deserve. It does not make sense that if a person who is born in the U.S. but to parents who are citizens to foreign countries should be a citizen. People from all around the world come to our country just to have kids that are automatically declared American citizens. That is why we are having trouble securing our borders and preventing immigrants from all over the world coming to our country. I am in favor of dual citizenship and support it fully but what the 14th Amendment says should be modified. That is the only restriction I would impose towards deciding the citizenship of a person. I think Donald Trump’s idea to modify the constitution is right and that we shouldn’t stick with the concepts that were in the original in 1866. There is a problem with immigration though and I think that a family who immigrates to the U.S. and has a kid should not be allowed to say that that infant is a citizen of America. The baby would have to wait and go through the steps to get citizenship of a particular country. Overall I believe we shouldn’t stay with the ideas expressed in the original and make it so that people who come to our country have to abide by the law and make sure that they pay taxes if they want to be a citizen and be given some of the best rights in the