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Daniella Abad Carnero

ENG 112-79
Connie S. Douglas, Instructor
Persuasive essay
Birthright Citizenship
Birthright Citizenship is an issue that has been a controversial issue in the last
couple of years in the United States (US). The birthright citizenship means that if you
were born in the US automatically will be a US citizen even if your parents are in the
country illegally or came to the country with just a visa. People think that take illegal
immigrants are the ones taking advantage of the birthright citizenship and that is the
main reason why people is against birthright citizenship. However, no only the illegal
population use the right of birthright citizenship but people that come to this country with
a visa do it to in order for their children to have more opportunities later on life. This
essay will try to persuade and inform those who are against it and those who do not
know about the issue.
In order to understand better the birthright citizen issue we have to have in mind
what the constitution says about it, and the fourteen amendment states that "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 (Meese III). There are
some Republicans like Lindsay Graham that believe that the fourteen amendment
should be change in order to eliminate the birth right citizenship for those who are not
citizen, so if I live in the US as resident alien and my children are born in the US
according to Senator Lindsay they should not be citizen even though they will be raise,
go to school and have a live in the US.

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Also, there are others that are against of changing the constitution but still
believe that the birthright citizenship should be eliminated though legislation(Editorial).
But would not that cause the same damage in those unborn children that will be raise in
the United States and will not have a motherland? Indeed there are persons that abuse
of the birthright citizenship like some Chinese that plan in advance to come to give birth
so their children will have a better future, but should we punish those unborn children
that have no blame in the decisions that their parents took for them? No, it would be
insane to take away the right to have a homeland to those children.

Finally, the founder fathers wrote the fourteen amendment and I believe it should
not be change or amend because some republicans do not want illegal immigrants to
change that status and do not want to create any other type of immigration reform and
utilize the birthright citizen issue to distract people of the true creation of a reform that
could help those immigrants who work hard every day and want to become part of this
great country but are not able to do it because of the lack of immigration changes.

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Work cited

"EDITORIAL: Amendments and citizenship rights." Foster's Daily Democrat (Dover, NH)
13 Aug. 2010: Newspaper Source Plus. Web. 17 Oct. 2014.

Meese III, Edwin,David F. Forte, Matthew Spalding. The Heritage Guide to the
Constitution. Regnery Pub, 2005.