Essay On 14th Amendment

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The 14th Amendment was ratified to the Constitution in 1868. This Amendment from the Constitution has allowed “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction, thereof are citizens of the United States of America and the state wherein they reside” according to Elbel. The fact about anchor babies is that they did not choose to be born in America soil. The illegal aliens who are the parents all work for their children to become good patriotic citizens and to have a goal in life to become whatever they want and too also contribute to society to make the United States a better country. I know this because I am one of those children whose parents were not citizens. It was tough but they somehow always pushed …show more content…
His idea is crazy and many people like Jim Nelson have said too believe that “This wall is ludicrous, it is bad form, it would not work, it will cost a fortune, and it will engender ill will with one of our greatest friends and trading partners, and effectively declare a cultural war against Mexico.” Which in fact might be true since the Donald Trump doesn’t want anything to do with the country of Mexico since he claimed that Mexicans were “bringing drugs , crime , and are rapist and some , I assume are good people”. (Jed Bush) who is a democratic and is running for office in 2016 and will most likely go up against Donald Trump, highly disagrees with Trumps idea of ending birthright citizenship because he believes that “This is a right of the 14th Amendment I just do not think it is legitimate to say that we were going to change our Constitution and that is going to solve our problem”. Jed Bush knows this is a smarter way to deal with the “anchor baby” situation so he knows it is better to just give the anchor babies citizenship and to focus on making our borders tougher to make anchor babies from occurring as often so we would not have to change our