Immigration Issue

[Jorge10]

Ok I have been thinking about the whole citizenship being given to people born in this country question. The people this affects are usually Latin people, mostly Mexicans of course.

The problem with giving citizenship to people at birth and the way things are now, is that the parents dont get citizenship and you have kids who are citizens and parents who are not. This is a problem because assuming people get tougher on immigration you could deport parents of American citizens. Also every once in a while immigration will go and start detaining people at local Mexican supermarkets in the US, you know what they look like they are all over California. Of course if they deport the parents, the kids are kind of screwed because they might be in school and also their spanish stinks so they cant really live in Mexico, so the parents have to comeback here somehow, usually illegally.

Not giving the kids citizenship is too tough in my opinion, I mean they were born here. The problem is that they become citizens and their parents dont. Also giving their parents citizenship is impossible as then people would come over here just to have kids in order to get citizenship.

Anyway I am Mexican, but im here legally and so are my parents, but this birth thing affects a lot of people I know(cousins, uncles). I just dont know where to be on this issue? I cant be against giving citizenship for anyone born here because it just seems to harsh, seems wrong. The problem is that having kids who are citizens of the US and having their parents not even be legal residents of the US seems messed up too. So I figured I would post it in the politics forum and see what people think.

So what do you guys think about people receiving citizenship at birth? For it? Against it? Why?