Reason's Steve Chapman on keeping Birthright Citizenship

[Epic]

Dude, if nobody's checking anything, as Tom Woods pointed out in his Mike Church interview, then tourists are just gonna come here and collect welfare. Of course government, if it exists in the modern form, has to check whether people or citizens or not.

 

[AlexMerced]

Technically I'm an Anarcho-Capitalist so this is a non-issue, but as far as people who already got brithright citizenship would be grandfathered, cause if there hadn't been who knows if the ancestry might've changed their actions to be naturalized... again the incentive structure would be different.

I just don't really understand the whole citizenship thing to begin with... If you get rid of the welfare/warefare state there really isn't much difference between being legal resident or a Citizen aside from voting in a broken political process...

Yeah, Anarcho Capitalism FTW

 

[slothman]

I think if you were born here "You" have the right to stay here. Send there parents back, the ones who came here illegally and broke the law, with the option to take their kids with them or leave them here to prosper while they try to get in legally. I bet they take their kids with them. Breeding in our country does not guarantee you citizenship, especially if you committed a felony to do so.

And also to clarify my point. I am not advocating the state take their children from them. Just let them know that their children are natural citizens and they have that right if they want to leave them here, which will never happen. Problem solved.

What happens to the children if the parents don't take them back?
They might but not always.

 

[Knightskye]

How do you get a green card, anyway?

Forbes made a chart that show examples of how long people from other countries have to wait to get a green card.

Do they go to our embassy in their country, fill out a form, and wait six years?