Alleged Costs of Ending Universal Birthright US Citizenship

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Alleged Costs of Ending Universal Birthright US Citizenship

A high-immigration group called the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) recently released a report on the alleged costs of ending the current application of the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause. The report claims that if the United States were to stop granting automatic citizenship to children born here to foreign tourists and illegal aliens the result would be increased cost to taxpayers, a caste system, a shadow economy and a national ID card, among other things.

Among the findings:

    A costly bureaucratic overhaul would not be necessary as the United States already has most of the means in place to administer tighter citizenship rules.
    Ending citizenship at birth to the children of tourists and illegal immigrants would not require Americans to sign up for a
national ID card.
    A narrower application of the Citizenship Clause would not result in a caste system or stateless children.
    Underground economic activity, which exists regardless of citizenship rules, can be curbed through better enforcement of
immigration law.
    Congress can likely change the current application of the Citizenship Clause through a simple legislative fix.

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