Arguments Against The 14th Amendment

Recently there has been a lot of discussion on social medias and in political debates around amending the fourteenth amendment to no longer grant immediate citizenship to the child of an immigrant who has migrated across a national border into the United States of America illegally. Not all Americans see eye to eye on this topic. While many believe that it is a natural born right to have citizenship in the country which you were born in, in a country with nearly three hundred and nineteen million people even if many of them feel a certain way not all are going to agree one hundred percent. Another aspect to this debate is that your family must have gone through the process of legal immigrant status before they are able to claim rights or have a child born to them do so. An editorial piece posed in The LA Times …show more content…
Jus soli translated from latin to “right of the soil” means, as defined by the fourteenth amendment, the right for anyone who is born within the territory of a state to citizenship. Our entire nation was founded as a nation of immigrants. Who are we to deny citizenship to others trying to move to the United States to better the lives of themselves and their children when we ourselves did the same thing less than two hundred and fifty years ago. David Baluarte a law professor at Washington and Lee University and the director of the immigrant rights clinic believes that repealing birthright citizenship can only negatively affect us as he states in his interview in the article “This Is What Would Happen If We Repealed Birthright Citizenship” by Bryan Schatz. Baluarte describes statelessness and what it would mean for the thousands of soon to be displaced people if birthright citizenship is repealed and removed as an amendment from our constitution. “Statelessness (means)...they lack citizenship in the country they were born, and they have nowhere to go where they can receive legal status. Stateless