Birthright citizenship in the United States gives the legal right for citizens who are born in this country the right to be a citizen, despite of their parents status.
Though, some people feel that having a child in the United states will help their citizenship, they have a rude awakening, depending on the country. For example in Haiti, due to the "ethnic cleansing" of the Dominican Republic, Haitians who are citizens can automatically have their rights as citizens taken away from them. The United States are more lenient with their birthright laws. An undocumented immigrants can live in the U.S. for years, have a baby, and that baby can obtain all of the natural rights which are given to those who are citizens.
With the issues we're currently dealing with, with undocumented immigration into this country, the use of deportation is considered a solution to some. It is also a way to control, by the regulation of what comes out and what goes in. I feel as though deportation is also a method of "ethnic cleansing" as I previously stated. For the simple fact we can tell an ethnic group that they don't have rights to our country and we feel that by deporting them back that we are ridding ourselves of that extra burden of people that are not documented citizens. It's also a form of racism too. For example in extreme cases, Hitler felt that getting rid of Jewish people would free the nation of Germany from their many internal problems. Yet, in America deportation acts in a similar sense of ridding our nation of this alien who invaded. Also by sending them back, we are also preventing them from reproducing in this country so their kids can have legal citizenship. Even though the Hitler example is quite extreme, they birthright citizenship along with deportation act as a modern day riddance of an entire people.
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