The world’s a fucked up place, and birthright citizenship probably isn’t the best way to go about things (neither are borders in general but that’s a tangent), but I don’t think removing rights before a better implementation is in place is the best way to go about things. More people get hurt this way, obviously, and we lose sight of what the actual point of this was. Not to mention it’s easy for fascism to take root when you can more easily say who gets to be a citizen.
We’re clearly not from the same countries, but I think this discussion stems from the recent political actions in the USA. In that instance, yes birthright citizenship is the most common method of citizenship and would have severe consequences by changing the law arbitrarily.
The world’s a fucked up place, and birthright citizenship probably isn’t the best way to go about things (neither are borders in general but that’s a tangent), but I don’t think removing rights before a better implementation is in place is the best way to go about things. More people get hurt this way, obviously, and we lose sight of what the actual point of this was. Not to mention it’s easy for fascism to take root when you can more easily say who gets to be a citizen.
Removing? We never had birthright citizenship.
We’re clearly not from the same countries, but I think this discussion stems from the recent political actions in the USA. In that instance, yes birthright citizenship is the most common method of citizenship and would have severe consequences by changing the law arbitrarily.
The US was never specified here so I didn’t know it was the expected topic