GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Friday he would deport the children of undocumented immigrants with their families, despite them already being U.S. citizens. “There are legally cont…

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Friday he would deport the children of undocumented immigrants with their families, despite them already being U.S. citizens.

“There are legally contested questions under the 14th Amendment of whether the child of an illegal immigrant is indeed a child who enjoys birthright citizenship or not,” Ramaswamy said after a town hall in Iowa.

Ramaswamy is not the only GOP candidate to question U.S. citizenship rules. Former President Trump announced in late May that on his first day back in office, he would seek to end birthright citizenship by way of an executive order.

  • kitonthenet
    7•1 year ago

    If both parents are here illegally, then the child shouldn’t be granted US citizenship (at least until at least one parent establishes lawful residency in the US). Neither should the descendants

    This is insane and cruel and a just society would punish you by stripping your citizenship

    • @Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      -6•1 year ago

      Of the countries that have birthright citizenship, many have similar or the exact same restrictions I’m mentioning here: One parent must be a citizen or have some form of long-term residency in the country. I am not suggesting anything here that isn’t being done by literally every other first-world nation on Earth. Unrestricted birthright citizenship is almost nonexistent in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Austrailia.

      • kitonthenet
        10•1 year ago

        Since you decided to delete your comment before I posted it mine appeared up thread, I’m reposting it here

        You do realize that birthright citizenship is almost entirely nonexistent in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Austrailia, right?

        at no point in the history of america has “but yurop does it” been a suitable justification for a policy. We are specifically trying to do better than europe