Birthright Citizenship Summary

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In “An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship” George F. Will states that birthright Citizenship should be put to an end because the 14th amendment has been “misinterpreted” and the amendment doesn’t make children born on U.S. soil an American. Will argues, that when the 14th amendment was being made, there was no such thing as illegal immigration, for that reason, how could the ratifiers write the amendment towards citizenship. Therefore, he adds they had no intentions to mention birthright citizenship issue in the amendment because they didn’t see it as a problem. George Will believes that the ratifiers of the amendment would have re-worded the 14th amendment if they had known that there would be so many immigrants

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