In both essays written by George Will and Linda Chavez there are some very good points on as to why children born to illegal immigrants, should and shouldn’t be automatically deemed citizens of the U.S. In both essay’s both authors use the Fourteenth Amendment as one of the main points in their arguments. George Will argues that “birthright citizenship” should not be a thing and that people take the Fourteenth Amendment out of context. People who argue that the Fourteenth Amendment should allow people born on U.S. soil are misinterpreting what the founding fathers intended when this amendment was made. George argues that there is no way that when this Amendment was written they could’ve known in the future the huge waves of “illegal immigrants”
