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Light blue countries have restrictions (such as permanent residency) so I wanna hear your opinions as well.
Nationality should be about building a community, so nationality should be given if the parents have an effective connection to the country. For this reason I think the best solution is combining nationality “by blood” (i.e. if one of the parents is a national), restricted “jus soli” (i.e. children of permanent residents get the nationality too), and, as an exception, I believe children that would otherwise be stateless should get nationality on birth to fix the glaring human rights issue.
As for children naturalisation, I believe any child that does most of mandatory schooling in a country should automatically get nationality.
This being said, I also believe that very few rights and duties should be restricted to nationals. People shouldn’t have to live in fear of having their entire life upturned or not have access to services and social support just because they have the wrong passport.
People shouldn’t have to live in fear of having their entire life upturned or not have access to services and social support just because they have the wrong passport.
Very important aspect! Thank you for mentioning this.
No. In our country, the majority bellieves that descent should be the first criterion that decides citizenship, and I belong to that majority. During recent years, it has been made much easier for foreigners to acquire citizenship, so that’s somewhat balanced now.
Why should descent be required?
A “nation” is a community, and without conducting a full investigation into every individual birth, the two main indicators that a child will likely have strong ties to a national community are:
- the parents already belong to that national community
- the parents reside permanently in the country. Almost all countries in the mid shade of blue use this criteria for restricted birthright.
“Required”? That’s looking at it from a funny angle. Descent is not usually lacking. Don’t you have parents?
Descent simply decides which citizenship you have, at first. That’s all. But if you feel you “require” a different descent, then I don’t know… :)
Lotta people in here have never had to immigrate. If the first thing you think of when you hear “immigration” is brown people trying to trick their way into a country, you might be a terrible fucking person.
Jus soli should always be an option because the harder it is to get citizenship, the harder that family’s life is going to be, regardless of circumstances. No single person should have to suffer just because of where they or their parents were born when there are other options.
Wouldn’t the correct answer in that case just be to make it easier to immigrate and gain citizenship, rather than expecting you to be born there?
The question wasn’t about expecting people to be born in the country they wish to live, it was about whether citizenship by jus soli should be an option without conditions.
As a whole, yes, I believe immigration should be easier. Citizenship by birth should be one of the routes available.
The question wasn’t about expecting people to be born in the country they wish to live, it was about whether citizenship by jus soli should be an option without conditions.
But why should it be an option if you don’t and/or don’t intend to live there?
Because it should always be an option? An option is optional, which means you don’t have to use it.
Surprised at the amount of commenters here fine with making kids’ lives worse because they’re afraid of brown people.
Two weeks ago I learned about someone losing her child’s custody because the kid doesn’t have citizenship, and her PR doesn’t extend to the kid, so the dad had to get full custody or the kid had to fly back (by themselves apparently). This is the kind of shit jus soli helps with.
If your nationality is tied to your blood rather than your identity, you have an ethnostate, not a nation.
Wow. I’m looking at all these “no” responses and they ring so much of the MAGAt’s yelling about “anchor babies”.
No. What’s the advantage for me as a citizen?
Does every single thing need to provide an advantage to you, for you to support it?
I see a clear disadvantage, but I’m willing to listen to the arguments for the other side before I make up my mind.
Seeking a better life for one’s children tends to be a powerful motivator for people. The promise of a better life has driven a lot of people to get on a boat and sail to the United States over the last few hundred years. As a natural born citizen, I benefit from them all, from the cleverest inventor to the humblest fruit picker. We got folks in power right now trying to abolish it, and look how it’s going for us.
You sound, to me, like a Republican.
No. It would be abused and ultimately break the country so it’s no longer good for anyone.
In order to still be a country where people can seek for a better future the first objective should be maintain the country prosper, and that would need some restrictions.
If you just look for the short term you would be advocating everyone for a terrible future. Even if you are well intended and think that allowing a limitless number of people to stablish seeking for a better life (which is what would happen), ultimately the system will be unable to hold and we all will fall together.
We must be smarter and think of a system that can keep improving people’s life for the foreseeable future.
That’s just racism
Wanting to help people is racism, noted. Good to know.
You don’t want to help people. You want to exclude people from the help.
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And to add to it. Fun fact, literally all studies of economic impacts of immigrants show they are a boost to the nation they move to and not a burden. You treat it as a given that a person not currently in their nation of origin puts stress on that system beyond what they added to it.
That is fantasy driven by very racist presumptions supported by no facts, only feelings.
No. Citizenship for a child in my country is tied to a huge amount of rights and access to welfare that essentially extends across a lifetime. Birthright citizenship would inevitably lead to an increase in (already significant) abuse of our strained welfare system.
Right now what’s needed is rapid reform in order to salvage as much of it as possible. We can’t afford to rapidly expand the system to include more people.
Tax the rich instead.
They already are. Marginal tax rate on income is ~66% and tax pressure as a whole is close to 50% of GDP. Hence increasing taxes isn’t really feasible.
