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In his address to the country on immigration last week, President Obama said that “being an American is not a matter of blood or birth.” Our current government policy of giving automatic US citizenship to the children illegal aliens who are born on American soil makes being American solely a matter of birth.
Americans are quickly waking up to the disaster that is the arbitrary government policy of guaranteed automatic citizenship to the children of illegal aliens. A Rasmussen Poll found that 58% of Americans opposed granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens, while only 33% supported it.
Birthright citizenship creates a massive fiscal burden on the American taxpayer.
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 specifically states illegal aliens and even many legal immigrants are “not eligible for any Federal public benefit” with a few exceptions such as disaster relief.
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, there are four million children of illegal aliens who received US citizenship by the sole virtue of being in the United States. Over one-third of these children lives at or below the poverty line and are eligible for a host of welfare programs that they would not receive were it not for birthright citizenship.
Additionally, Obama’s health care legislation created a huge loophole that allows illegal aliens to use birthright citizenship to receive government subsidized health care. While there are verification loopholes, the legislation makes illegal aliens ineligible for taxpayer funded “Affordability Credits.”
However, the bill intentionally does not address what would happen if an illegal immigrant family had a US Citizen child. According to Pew, 8.8 million people live in such mixed families.
The Congressional Research Service noted that under Obama’s legislation, “it appears that the Health Choices Commissioner would be responsible for determining how the credits would be administered in the case of mixed-status families.”
In other words: Obama’s Health Czar will decide whether or not to give free healthcare to the families of illegal aliens. I wonder what side they will rule on!
Birthright citizenship makes it much more difficult to enforce our immigration laws.
When an illegal immigrant is detained, they can use the fact that they have citizen children as extenuating circumstances that make them a “hardship case” when appealing deportation orders.
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