To the editor: There are only a few Individuals who can say that their citizenship shouldn’t be by the use of birthright. (“Meet the architect of Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, a California lawyer facing disbarment,” column, Jan. 23)
My very own English paternal grandfather entered Canada as a youngster on a cattle boat. He made a dwelling by catching and coaching wild horses throughout the western a part of our continent then promoting them.
He married a German girl whose household got here from the Polish Hall, which was a part of Germany one 12 months and Poland the subsequent, and so they began their household in Minnesota.
There isn’t any paperwork to show that they had been ever naturalized as Individuals, and I don’t know that they ever had been. Nonetheless, their 12 youngsters, 26 grandchildren (my era), our kids, our grandchildren and our nice grandchildren are unquestionably American based mostly on the 14th Modification.
Carol Nelson-Selby, San Luis Obispo
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To the editor: Concepts that begin as constructive end up to have many negatives when coping with human nature.
Birthright citizenship is a kind of fantastic constructive concepts, coming on the finish of the evil days of slavery. The a long time handed, and being human, some folks have taken benefit of birthright citizenship.
For instance, folks from different nations have come to america within the final days of their being pregnant to provide delivery right here — known as “birth tourism” — making their youngsters Americans.
That is identified, and whether or not it continues needs to be as much as the opinion of we the folks. Ought to we proceed with birthright citizenship?
Elaine Vanoff, West Hollywood
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To the editor: Apparently, not solely do the birthright deniers assault the proper of individuals born within the U.S. to undocumented mother and father to be residents. Additionally, one among their foremost opponents to this proper, John Eastman, states that individuals born right here to unnaturalized individuals must also not be “natural-born residents.”
My three youngsters had been born within the U.S. to a father from Spain and a mom from the Netherlands, neither but naturalized on the time. Would Eastman, who was one among my daughter’s professors on the Fowler Faculty of Regulation at Chapman College — and with whom she generally sparred in school over politics — deny her natural-born citizenship?
I wish to see him take her on in court docket, and he would lose.
Anneke Mendiola, Santa Ana
