The Importance Of The 14th Amendment

This shows how anyone born in the U.S is a citizen and has the rights of a citizen. It doesn’t matter if they only have one legal immigrant parent. At the moment you are born in the U.S, you automatically have the rights of a citizen. Therefore, everyone born in the U.S is an official citizen.
In my point of view, I would say that the fourteenth amendment should not be changed. People should not be arguing that it should only grant citizenship to those children who have at least one legal immigrant parent. This amendment is one of the oldest and most important right given by the U.S. Society and the law can’t blame the children, just because their parents wanted a better life for them. Every child has the same rights regardless of the status of their parent.
People can’t blame the children for being born in the United States, because they didn’t have the option to choose whether they wanted or not. Therefore, the right of birth citizenship should be protected because …show more content…
because what’s the difference between a child who was born in the U.S and whom parents are legal, versus a child who is born in the United States but whose parents are immigrants. There is absolutely no difference because the own amendment states that once you are born in the U.S, you are automatically a citizen and no one could take that away. In my point of view, I don’t see any difference because they are both citizens and it doesn’t matter if your parents are legal immigrants or illegal immigrants, because the child is already a citizen. Therefore, any child born in the United States is automatically a legal citizen and deserves every right just like any other citizen. I don’t think they should deny citizenship from those who have illegal immigrant parents, because most of the United States is filled out with people from other