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consensus1yesterday at 3:16 PM4 repliesview on HN

And how many of those countries have an illegal immigration problem? I bet that most of them would quickly remove that loophole if people actually started to exploit it.


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ryandrakeyesterday at 3:22 PM

Root cause it. The USA does not have an illegal immigration problem. It has a "huge, slow immigration bureaucracy" problem that makes the legal path so slow and difficult that people are incentivized to gamble on illegal paths.

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Xeamekyesterday at 3:23 PM

People who abuse birthright citizenships are, by definitions, not illegal immigrants. But even if you count all of them as 'unwanted' immigrants - how many % of total immigration to the US is result of those birthright laws?

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fckgwyesterday at 3:25 PM

A right enshrined in the Constitution is not a "loophole".

rilindoyesterday at 3:23 PM

Most countries with a standard of living that even barely better than their neighbors have an immigration problem. There is a whole continent call Europe that is fighting off migrates and last I checked, birthright citizenship is not a thing there.