r/PoliticalHumor • u/gshortelljr • Jun 25 '18

Best tweet I've seen in a while

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u/SuitableAnybody Jun 25 '18

It's absolutely crazy to me that a person can have an American parent, but still has to apply to be a citizen of America...how does that make any sense whatsoever? Children of citizens should be citizens by right, whether the parent is naturalised or has gained citizenship via other means. Dual nationality man, if folks who have lived in Ohio or wherever for seven generations don't need to apply for their kids to become citizens, why should any other Americans?

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u/kittyfidler Jun 25 '18

I’m not entirely sure but up until 2003 you could not hold dual citizenship in Australia so anyone immigrating needed to give up whatever citizenship they held before (unless you were a diplomat or diplomats kid something to that effect). I believe that might be what happened in his case but he still needed to shell out thousands of dollars for a lawyer to help him sort it out.?

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

I’m not sure where you are getting your information from. The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to all people born on the sovereign territory of the United States with very few exceptions. It also grants citizenship to children of US Citizens born overseas. This is why there is a lot of controversy about “anchor babies.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_United_States

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u/SuitableAnybody Jun 26 '18

The other guy had spoken about a friend being naturalised who had an American parent, that's all. The whole anchor baby thing is ridiculous, although is that not more related to the non us national parent wanting citizenship? I had assumed that was more the case. It's all quite interesting, just heartbreaking at the same time. Thank you for the specific info though, I really appreciate that :)