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> All you needed to do was fly your pregnant wife over to get American citizenship...but that's changing now.

This statement is steeped in such ignorance. You get absolutely no immigration benefit whatsoever by having a U.S. citizen child.

If you are talking about a child's citizenship, then FYI, birthright citizenship (part of the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution) has not been repealed.




That's untrue. The benefit is not immediate, but as soon as that child is 21 they are able to petition for immigration status for their parents for family reunification. In fact the majority of US imigration happens via family reunification.

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/family-reunification


For this to work a would-be immigrant has to have a child on U.S. soil, wait 21 years, and then have their child sponsor them. That is not a practical immigration plan.




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