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Birthright Citizenship Should Be Modified An immigrant can live in Ethiopia and not become an Ethiopian; he can live in Nairobi and not become a Kenyan; he can live in Saudi Arabia and not become a Saudi, but anyone from any part in the world can live in America and become an American. US citizenship is automatically granted to those who are born within the united states no matter their legal status. birthright citizenship encourages women to enter the country illegally to give birth. birthright citizenship should not be abolished, but should be granted only to legal immigrants and American citizens.
Each year in America 4 million babies are born, and weather their parents are illegal immigrants or have visiting visas their newborns are
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citizenship, so pregnant "tourists" illicitly enter this country for the purpose of giving birth. Some might say that removing birth right citizenship from illegal immigrants is racism that only provides the ''white people'' the rights and advantages afforded by citizenship, but the reality is that people should not come in the united states just for the benefits of the birthright citizenship and they should go through the process that all the legal immigrants have gone through. Others might think that those who have the privilege of being a citizen wanting to deny the others the privilege is selfishness and to Stop the madness and give opportunity to those who seek it. The fact is that the opportunity to come to the United States is being given every day. Margaret D. Stock stated saying ''We’d need a whole new government bureaucracy to make birth adjudications. Americans would have to pay for this new bureaucracy, which would be tasked to decide the citizenship of some 4 million babies born in America each year.'' (Margaret D. Stock, New York Times). That might be true, but it is also true that illegal immigrant having children in the united states don't have medical insurance and the working legal and citizen Americans are paying for it, once the birthright citizenship will be denied to illegal immigrants, the flow of immigrants and visitors having children here will

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