Apparently Texas officials were able to choose who their parents were before being born. At least that's what they seem to infer. They feel they have the power to take away citizenship to those who are born in the U.S. to parents who are illegally here. The parents don't have a Texas I.D and the Texas government won’t accept a matricula or a Mexican identification, which is actually more reliable than the Texas I.D because of its features. Texas should not deny babies their citizenship because their parents don't have a Texas issue I.D.
The fourteenth amendment says "All persons born or naturalized in the United States... are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." Parents argue that they can't enroll their children to school because they don't have the child's birth certificate. But what they can do in order to in role their children to school is write a letter were they state why they don't have the child's birth certificate, which would make them willingly say that they are illegally here. But what's really ironic about this is that Texas will not accept a friendly neighbor country's I.D but will accept simple letters from people who practically can't prove they are human. So not only are they taking the first constitutional right they get when they are born in American soil, which is being a U.S. citizen, but they are also denying them free education as well as many other beneficial things that could help them.
Texas Republican Senator Rafael Edward Cruz (or as he likes to be called Ted Cruz) agrees with Texas denying citizenship, even though he was born in Canada and is running for president. He claims that his mother (Caucasian) was born in the U.S.; therefore he is a naturalized born American however his father is Cuban born and immigrated to the United States. Cruz is establishing a double standard because he claims citizenship but meanwhile he will deny the same right to Americans born in Texas who's parents are immigrants, even if they were born on American soil.
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I really don't understand what they expect to accomplish by doing this. The only thing they're doing is asserting their xenophobia and narrow-mindedness in thinking this will actually solve anything.
Of the many controversial issues that Texas is currently facing, I believe that my classmate Javier did a good job overall at stating his opinion regarding citizenship. I only have three, small criticisms and on a positive note, three things I found that made his argument a strong one.
My first criticism is at the end of the fourth sentence, when there isn't an explanation for the features that make a Mexican form of identification "more reliable than the Texas I.D.," since this is not common knowledge. Next, I noticed the word "enroll" was misspelled as "in role" at one point. Lastly, I noticed a few run on sentences.
One aspect that strengthens Javier's argument is his use of the fourteenth amendment, which he then uses to raise the question; what happens to the children of non-citizens, born on American soil, who can't receive the benefits of living as American citizens? This is good food for thought. Moreover, I thought it was a nice touch to bring light onto Ted Cruz's background and general opinion of the matter. Considering he is running for president, it's important to know this information.
In the end, Javier's choice of writing about immigration/citizenship was a good decision, in addition to being accompanied by a simple introduction to a very controversial issue.
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