Some issues to see where we stand.
Require a National ID?
Make English the official language of the US?
Revoke Birthright Citizenship/Jus Soli
Is citizenship amnesty on the table for anybody?
Removing Birthright Citizenship
I voted no. Though I do not like the results in many, many cases, if your are born here, you are born here. That really should be enough.
As for the anchor baby argument. If the parents don’t make the effort to become citizens, then toss them on the child’s 21st birthday.
The parents-who decides if they “made the effort”?
Birthright citizenship is important for us for several reasons.
It’s basically how the new world became the new world. So it’s historical to our very being.
It encourages assimilation.
They did the work and became actual sworn in citizens.
Doing the work doesn’t always get you the outcome. Because government
True. Some of my wife’s co-workers have made it through the citizenship process, given what I know about them, it cannot be all that difficult.
I gave 21 years as a threshold, surely the process can be completed in that time frame.
It is incredibly difficult for some people. Impossible even. Often times for youthful indiscretions.
A marijuana charge at 16 for example. We all know marijuana should not be illegal.
We all know it is widely accepted and even cultural among some.
Now here we are 10 (baby at 26) plus 21 years later and that misdemeanor is enough to deny. What now.
And it all boils down to how one person feels on that day.
Got me there.
correct. people who have a vested interest in the united states make it a much better country.
Allan
My woman is a permanent resident.
She is also proud to be a citizen of her country. And she has a few years on her. She’s not interested in voting nor politics. Not interested in being a US citizen.
She us interested in living with her man and being left alone. Exactly like I was when I was a permanent resident of her country.
Our son is a citizen and has been since birth. Her permanent resident status suits her just fine.
Why should she have to become a US citizen?
In our arrogance, we assume everybody wants to be a US citizen? Well, that’s not true.
Is citizenship required for a vested interest?
Not my intention.
Not where I was going.
My blanket response needs some tuning and thought.
yes. also immigrants who serve in the military.
you join the armed forces of the united states.
you become a citizen.
Allan
Exactly. She sounds like a close family friend we had. She was South Korean, married a US soldier, and came back with him. For a long time, she didn’t want to become a citizen; had no desire to get into our politics or anything else. Being a permanent resident ended up making it easier for her to travel back to South Korea to see her mom every year with the way their laws work. After her mom died, she decided to become a US citizen and renounced her South Korean citizenship since she had been here for over 35 years at that point and since her mom passed she doesn’t plan on ever going back. Her siblings all live in Japan or in the US now.
Not a lot of MAGA voting yet.
Questions are probably uncomfortable for a lot of them.
