As the bulk of what we talked about in class, birthright citizenship is the idea that, a legal right to citizenship for all children born in a country's territory, regardless of parentage.With that being said, areas of the world have all grown to form misconceptions about what that means and therefore it is not a thing any many countries, something I find to be absurd. By creating this ideal into our systematic thinking we have also built up several other concepts through our thinking towards birthright citizenship. For instance, this has now built up the idea of "statelessness" which we touched on in class. This misunderstood notion of a homeland and no where to turn to, making the "alien" term even more evident. With that being said, as Maury had mentioned in our class discussion the people who are coming to the U.S. are already "stateless" yes, we are making them feel this way, but it is likely that they left their country because they have already had this feeling. Our immigration systems and patrols work to send them away...when they truly don't have anything to go back to.
I found an article online that talks about the term and what it means today especially with all Donald Trump has to blab on about it. It talks about the notion that one can be born into the U.S. citizenship by being born in the states, as described the "right of the soil," and you can also be born in by being born in by U.S. citizens or by "right of blood." These truths create the term birthright citienship and really express how far we've moved away from this and more on white is right and aliens of this country will always be that way.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/birthright-citizenship-donald-trump-england/403159/
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