1. What happens if illegal immigrants have children that were born in the US? Are they (the children) also considered illegal immigrants?
2. What is life like for the child of an illegal immigrant?
3. Is it really fair to make a person a citizen if they have illegally immigrants for parents, even though they themselves were born on US soil?
This three questions I chose are all related by having to do with illegal immigrants and their children. If an illegal immigrant had their child in the US, the child is considered a citizen of the United States; however their parents are still considered illegal immigrants. About 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 (or 8 percent) had at least one parent who was an illegal immigrant.
"The study comes as lawmakers in Washington have been debating whether to consider changing the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States." Should they? (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/us/12babies.html)
In the Frontline program we watched in class, a family was interviewed who had parents of illegal immigrants. These young children don't quite know about this illegal thing until a parent is deported. In this case, their mom was deported. The father was lost without her and did not know what to do. Should he stay in the US safely with his kids or go find his wife and kids in harm? The kids was completely upset hoping to once reunite with their mother sometime. Each kid had a dream. One was a lawyer and police officer but after this incident they completely changed their minds. Seeing these kids and how they have to live without their mother really makes me and other think: is it right for parents of legal citizen kids be deported?
My opinion on this matter is that parents of legal kids should not be deported. I personally cannot imagine living without my mom or dad especially knowing they are forced to live somewhere else. They aren't doing any harm to the US citizens so why deport them for some small stupid crime such as no turn signal? It just makes no sense. How can we find away around this?
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