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Giving birth in the USA

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The history behind this law makes it fairly obvious as to why the law was needed, why it was a good idea at the time, and why it should still stand. The 14th Amendment effectively vacated the Supreme Court decision in the famous Dred Scott case, ensuring that never again could a person born in the United States be legally viewed as anything but a U.S. citizen. Obviously the law has had broad implications, most of which have in fact righted historical wrongs like school segregation (Brown vs. Board of Education was a 14th Amendment case).

That's not to say that "anchor babies" aren't a problem, but taking back the 14th Amendment isn't the way to solve it. If I'm not mistaken, an "anchor baby" is no protection against deportation for the parent(s) of one. And I believe the child in question has to be 21 to petition for the parents to come to the States as LPRs.

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Nessa, what you were talking about, actually, if your child is born in US, he'll only become a brazilian citizen when he chooses to, and he can only choose to be one after he turns 21, even if he's the child of brazilian parents.

Ronaldo Fenomeno's kid doesn't have a citizenship, did you know? He wasn't born in Brasil and both parents are brazilian, so he doesn't have either nationality, and only when he's legal of age he can say "I want to be brazilian" and become a citizen.

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meauxna   15

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Ronaldo Fenomeno's kid doesn't have a citizenship, did you know? He wasn't born in Brasil and both parents are brazilian, so he doesn't have either nationality, and only when he's legal of age he can say "I want to be brazilian" and become a citizen.

hmmm, that's interesting. I know I could google this, but where was the kid born then? Doesn't he have citz from that country? (I know not all countries confer citizenship just for being born there).

Wouldn't that be weird? A totally stateless kid?

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I'd say it would be very scary to be a stateless person... they could decide to kick you out of wherever you were living, and then where would you go?

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