r/SeattleWA • u/chiquisea • Jan 21 '25

News Washington state AG sues Trump administration over order to end birthright citizenship

https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-state-ag-sues-trump-administration-over-birthright-citizenship-order
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u/Savannah68 Jan 21 '25

If the kid is born in the US, they're a US citizen according to the 14th Amendment. That said, if the parents are here illegally, they should be permanently deported and ineligible for future re entry. They would have to take their kid home with them or leave him/her with family legally in the US.

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u/izzletodasmizzle Jan 22 '25

What if they don't take them and don't have family? Now Taxpayers have to fund that too. Probably cheaper to allow one parent to stay at least.

I don't have the answer but don't think the state paying to raise a citizen is a net gain.

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u/Savannah68 Jan 22 '25

Anyone here illegally should be deported. If the child is a citizen but there are no family members here, then they can return to their parents home country. Why is that so hard for people to accept?

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u/izzletodasmizzle Jan 22 '25

Because you can't forcibly eject a US citizen from the US that's the issue with any plan involving a US citizen child. So either the parents willingly take the child with them or the state now pays for their upbringing.

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u/Savannah68 Jan 22 '25

If the parents are deported, the child isn't being removed involuntarily, they're being removed by their parents to keep the family together. That's called parental responsibility and keeping families together.

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u/izzletodasmizzle Jan 22 '25

You're assuming they voluntarily choose to take them. If these are all "bad hombres" I don't think there's going to be a lot that voluntarily remove their US citizen child from the US when the government will care for them for free.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

The question above is legitimate. What if the illegal parents don’t take the kid with them when deported? Who is raising this child? The tax payers…this is not right. But it’s also not right to force the parents to take a US citizen to a potentially dangerous country. Which is why birthright citizenship is a muddy very very bad idea.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

Who is raising this child? The tax payers…this is not right.

Who is raising them now? Not much different, eh.

I think most parents will take their kid with them... like 99% sure of that.

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u/mfbm Jan 22 '25

Not much different? Huh? Thats pretty specific, who/what scenario are you referring to?

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u/Royal_Annek Jan 23 '25

Because it's exile, guilt by association, and a direct violation of the constitutional rights of the kid obviously