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    few nations give out citizenship to any kids that are born on their land and United States is one of the countries that provides citizenship to people that are born on their land. Although people from various countries come to United States of America to give birth to their babies and apply for the citizenship through that‚ I argue that the U.S government should not provide citizenship

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    Birthright citizenship 1.) A. Research the term "birth tourism" and how birth tourism impacts (or may impact) our system and resources. B. Which areas in the U.S. are seeing the most birth tourism? a. Birth tourism‚ mainly Chinese women‚ travel to give birth in the U.S so that their children will be U.S citizens‚ also called Anchor babies. After getting the citizenship for the baby‚ most parents return to their home country. Their plan being to send their children to college in America‚ once old

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    Illegal Aliens and Birthright Citizenship The United States Constitution is the supreme law of our great country. Found in our Constitution‚ is the fourteenth amendment. But‚ did the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment want or not want to grant citizenship to every person who happened to be born on U.S. soil? And does "subject to the jurisdiction" mean something different from "born in the United States‚"? First‚ let’s see exactly what the fourteenth amendment states: “All persons born or naturalized

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    Citizenship as it has been stated in the constitution‚ accepts all people who were born in the United States to be citizen of the United States. A great number of people also agrees for illegal people to stays in the United States although they disagree for them to apply for permanent resident. Another problem is whether a border should be made around the borders and the argument have continued over the year. The cartoon clearly describe the uncertainty of undocumented or illegal people to citizenship

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    Birthright citizenship has been one of the most controversial issues in America and always in the heated center of immigration reform battles. In addition‚ bills to deny birthright citizenship have been introduced in Congress many times so far. According to the report from Devin Burghart‚ in the 113th Congress‚ Rep. Steve King‚ an outspoken hardliner on immigration‚ introduced a bill on January 3 to "require that only the children of citizens‚ legal immigrants permanently living in the country or

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    The Meaning of Citizenship The meaning of citizenship in one word is freedom. Citizenship is a legally recognized human that was born on United States soil or an alien that has passed the all of the required tests to become a citizen. As a citizen in the United States‚ we have so many rights‚ privileges‚ duties as a citizen‚ along with several laws in place. Without laws in place‚ citizens would not be protected and have the sense of freedom. A citizen in this country has the right to participate

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    Birthright Citizenship Aff: We stand in affirmation of the topic Resolved: Birthright citizenship should be abolished in the United States. We define abolish according to the Black’s Law Dictionary as to annul‚ eliminate‚ or destroy‚ especially an ongoing practice or thing and “should” from the Merriam Webster dictionary as a word used to express obligation. The criteria for this round will be net benefits and if we prove that abolishing birthright citizenship provides even a minute benefit

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    Immigration Jennifer Lippert ENG/102 March 12‚ 2012 Dr. Kimberly Stanley In the United States of America‚ we live in a sea of opportunity.  Many people come from other countries to live in America to explore those opportunities‚ but the laws governing immigration have failed to change with the ever-increasing immigrant population.  We watch as Border States deal with the rising costs to support immigrants and wonder whether this was what the founding fathers had in mind when the first Immigration

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    Diversity in America Bobbi Bruce ETH 125 October 21‚ 2012 Scott Bell Diversity in America The United States of America is becoming a very diverse society. There is no real way around it. It will only become more diverse as the years go on. Every year more migrants and interracial couples show up in the US. It is time for all to embrace the different cultures. Many things affect how people embrace this diversity. The Social Explorer is a very help site when looking at the diversity in the

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    Poland and The United States of America Comparing two countries from completely different sides of the world‚ it is easy task. Two different cultures‚ different people‚ customs‚ and behaviors‚ but also a lot of similarities. Poland knows as a heard of Old Continent with deep roots in European culture. From the other side we have United States of America pretty young country‚ with people that valuing freedom and their social rights. People can think those two countries are completely different‚

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