Presidential Elections Pros And Cons

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The presidential election is around the corner, and according to Donald Trump he’s in the lead. Whether or not those polls are accurate we are facing a real problem. The possibility of a xenophobic president, and we all knows how he feels toward Mexicans and Muslims. According to Mr. Trump illegal immigrants are “destroying the fabric of the country”. He against efforts to grant legal status to undocumented immigrants. Mr Tumps calls it a “suicide mission” for Republicans. He believes that “every one of those 11 million people will be voting Democratic.” For a person to be eligible to vote they have to be a U.S. citizen. They have to meet their state's residency requirements and must be 18 years old. That’s not my real issue with Mr. Trump, his lack of common sense and the standard voting laws don’t really concern me. …show more content…
Yes, I am talking about the bill of right, the 14th amendment and his inappropriate comments towards women. This is what the 14th Amendment says, "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." Here what it means once you have am American citizenship, it cannot be taken from you by Congress or other authorities, well, it can be but have to have lied to government during the process to get US citizenship. I am pretty sure an infant can’t lie to the government. This amendment was passed to protect African Americans but later the Supreme Court extended the protection to the right for the children of immigrants and the right of Native Americans to become citizens. Under the fourteenth amendment states may not discriminate, with this law Americans of non-American parentage are protected by

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