| ▲ | sleepyguy 2 days ago |
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| ▲ | triceratops 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| > one of the few in the world that allows this 1 out of every 5 countries, 28% of the world's land area isn't "few" in my book. |
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| ▲ | tencentshill 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Then you can the work to get Congress to ratify an amendment. Donate, campaign, maybe even run for office yourself! We still do things democratically, not by executive order. Authoritarians will always offer the easy way out. |
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| ▲ | zamadatix 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Both sides of each case should really start doing this after any ruling. As we've seen dozens and dozens of times, there is nothing that says the Supreme Court will have the same interpretation of the same less-than-crystal-clear words 10 years from now. Their decisions in the meantime are also not really democratic yet trend consistently towards their (albeit, very well argued versions of) individual political views instead. It's a problem of the current court as much as it was a problem of the court 20, 40, or 60 years ago. |
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| ▲ | ASinclair 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > one of the few in the world that allows this Over 30 countries have unconditional birthright citizenship. |
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| ▲ | wat10000 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's not that rare. Nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere does it this way. |
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| ▲ | Karthick81 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| We want the best talent to want to come here! |
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| ▲ | thrance 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > The problem with this is that many people come here to only have children (anchor children) and abuse the system. Racist lie, provide proof that this is an actual significant issue. |
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| ▲ | iAMkenough 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| While maybe a small scale issue, the solution isn’t an authoritative order that tries to rewrite the U.S. Constitution and bypass democracy. |
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| ▲ | sleepyguy 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Perhaps, but this is definitely an issue/problem and the US should model it's policy after the EU on this specific issue. | | |
| ▲ | bigmadshoe 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Do you have much evidence that this is a real problem on the scale of the US population? I would imagine a tiny percentage of citizens were anchor children (i.e. people whose parents came to the US purely to give birth to them, then left again) | | |
| ▲ | sleepyguy 2 days ago | parent [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | atonse 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Sources for your numbers? I'm curious to learn more about how widespread this issue is. I personally have heard of 2-3 cases in my small social circle, so to me it feels more common. But I am having trouble finding actual numbers. | |
| ▲ | bigmadshoe 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | 30k-60k out of >3m births doesn’t seem like a massive problem to me. Maybe the energy spent fighting this could be better spent elsewhere. |
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| ▲ | iAMkenough 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | No perhaps. A change to the U.S. Constitution requires a democratic process, not achievable by authoritarian executive order. |
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