Birthright citizenship is much more specific: It's a relatively modern invention where the mother just has to give birth here. Every other country requires more stake than that to be a citizen, like one or both parents also being citizens and/or renouncing any alternate citizenships upon reaching adulthood.
Problem is a lot of people here don't have any loyalty to this country. They'll flee as soon as shit goes south. All of the illegal immigrants definitely will, and quite a few of their anchor babies will too. Then there's the jews and their escape plan...
I'm just not convinced birthright citizenship is the source of problems.
They're gonna come regardless.
And removing birthright citizenship opens up a can worms that will be misused, and is likely intended for misuse.
That said I don't see why it shouldn't be massively reinforced:
Both parents have to be birthright citizens. And both of their parents have to be birth right citizens.
And we only apply it retroactively, starting in say, 1980-1990. So if someone was born here in say, 2015, and both their parents are citizens, but one of their grandparents came here in 1981, then its a no go, then still a foreigner.
Of course all of this assumes we'd be deporting a significant number of people beforehand.
Or that immigration in its current form is remotely okay, when its not.
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