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Claudia Lopez Mrs Sharifian Government 2305 The 14th Amendment
In the United States the fourteenth amendment has been talked about a lot both in positive ways and negative, are immigrant families abusing it and making unfair to other families? There is a big question, whether the fourteenth amendment is being abused or is a few bad things that happened overtaking the goodness and advantage other families are doing. There have been many occasions and suspicious activity in the United States regarding the fourteenth amendment, some immigrant families are using it in a way it shouldn’t and in my opinion I believe the bad is overtaking some of the good and the fourteenth amendment should not be reinforced.
The fourteenth amendment states that anyone born on American soil they are basically American and have the rights any other American does. Many believe that the amendment should be reinterpreted because of the term “birth tourism”, birth tourism is to travel to a specific place, in this case America, for the sole purpose of giving birth to your baby in that specific country. The reason people think that it is so bad and a huge deal is because many women lie when they …show more content…
1 One of the many good things is that it preserves the country’s culture. America is known for being very diverse and welcoming and birth tourism could preserve that quality the U.S is known for. Another good thing is that social programs would be more for local needs instead. Because the child was born in the U.S even in their parents are immigrants they are still eligible for social programs and their actual intention. Some cons to birth tourism is that the child does not have a say for obvious reasons. A big con is that it violates government laws, in the U.S, ay kid born here is automatically a citizen. Even though this plays out because of the 14th amendment in many other countries the practice of birth tourism is considered
Claudia Lopez Mrs Sharifian Government 2305 The 14th Amendment
In the United States the fourteenth amendment has been talked about a lot both in positive ways and negative, are immigrant families abusing it and making unfair to other families? There is a big question, whether the fourteenth amendment is being abused or is a few bad things that happened overtaking the goodness and advantage other families are doing. There have been many occasions and suspicious activity in the United States regarding the fourteenth amendment, some immigrant families are using it in a way it shouldn’t and in my opinion I believe the bad is overtaking some of the good and the fourteenth amendment should not be reinforced.
The fourteenth amendment states that anyone born on American soil they are basically American and have the rights any other American does. Many believe that the amendment should be reinterpreted because of the term “birth tourism”, birth tourism is to travel to a specific place, in this case America, for the sole purpose of giving birth to your baby in that specific country. The reason people think that it is so bad and a huge deal is because many women lie when they …show more content…
1 One of the many good things is that it preserves the country’s culture. America is known for being very diverse and welcoming and birth tourism could preserve that quality the U.S is known for. Another good thing is that social programs would be more for local needs instead. Because the child was born in the U.S even in their parents are immigrants they are still eligible for social programs and their actual intention. Some cons to birth tourism is that the child does not have a say for obvious reasons. A big con is that it violates government laws, in the U.S, ay kid born here is automatically a citizen. Even though this plays out because of the 14th amendment in many other countries the practice of birth tourism is considered