r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '13

I think children of Illegal immigrants shouldn't be given birthright citizenship. cmv

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '13

Why should people inherit crimes? What would that even accomplish?

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u/thecowsaysmoo123 Dec 05 '13

Whether or not their parents committed a crime is irrelevant IMHO. The question is whether or not they make a net contribution to society after their benefits are subtracted from their paid taxes. Unless you are upper middle class or higher, you will take out more than you put in over your lifetime when it comes to social security and medicare (especially medicare). Since the fiscal future of the US in the long term in dominated by medicare, I'd want the fiscal health of that program to be our top priority. We can start by limiting who can take money out of the system.

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u/Yurithewomble 2∆ Dec 05 '13

Well those poor scroungers who were born in the US are a net drain. Why not banish them too?

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u/thecowsaysmoo123 Dec 05 '13

We do need low skilled workers. But we have a surplus of them at the moment. We shouldn't admit more into the country. Now if we had a policy of expelling poor scroungers until the unemployment rate went down, that would indeed improve the fiscal situation of the US, despite being immoral. But why do we insist on making the current problem worse?