On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
Just as we send young American Jews to Israel through the Birthright program, we need to also consider a 'reverse Birthright' for Israeli kids to come see America.
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.
Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.
You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.
It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.