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karynnj

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6. Any lawyers here want to comment?
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 10:42 AM
Sep 2016

As a non lawyer, what I always heard is that someone born here has the right to American citizenship. Does it matter how old they are? For instance, what of someone whose parents came here 60 years ago and they are 58 years old?

Not to mention, how far back does this go? ie - assume that the mother was born in the US to a person who came here illegally, is the child a citizen? What if this were true for both parents? Should we go back to the 4 grand parents?

I was surprised that he spoke repeatedly of people over staying their visas. Back when my kids were little, I knew several young women who came over on the same program we used for au pairs who could stay for a year -- who illegally stayed sometimes with the same family and some times with a new family.

Given that it is likely that Trump has a pattern of having models working for him when their visas do not allow that, his new zero tolerance is interesting. As a devil's advocate, should someone suggest if all these draconian things are enacted, maybe anyone who ever violated their visa rules should be deported .... even if their first name was Melania.

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