re: #350 HappyWarrior

Wendell, I deeply apologize if I’m coming off too harsh but as someone who has worked in immigration law in this country, I know how expensive and timely naturalization is. If we were to revise birth right citizenship, we would be making life very difficult for millions of people who know no home but the United States. My SiL’s cousins’ children got their citizenship this way. They attend American univeristies. They speak English. They hold jobs. They have ties to their parents home in Peru but it’s no different than my grandparents’ older siblings and cousins who did to Slovakia. You’re going to create a lot of potentially stateless people by getting rid of this and people who will feel like an outsider in their homes. Again I apologize if I come too harsh but I can’t compromise on this. I support things like making sure we are not getting criminals or people who are health risks nto the country and monitoring the border for ilegal substances being smuggled in like arms or drugs but if someone is following the law, they belong here IMO.

as with a lot of things we discuss here, passing a law to end BC (NOT retroactively) won’t stop it from happening. as part of a comprehensive plan, the rate would probably drop over time.

the arc of immigration reform is gonna be a long one - just like every other contentious issue. not only is it a finance issue for employers, it too, is a vote getter and political money raiser

the arc of the effects of immigration reform is gonna be a lot longer