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The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution indicates that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship for nearly all individuals born in the country, regardless of their parents' citizenship or immigration status

the immigration benefits of having a child born in the United States are limited. Citizen children cannot sponsor parents for entry into the country until they are 21 years of age, and if the parent had ever been in the country illegally, they would have to show they had left and not returned for at least ten years; however, pregnant and nursing mothers could receive free food vouchers through the federal WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program and enroll the children in Medicaid.[20]

Parents of citizen children who have been in the country for ten years or more can also apply for relief from deportation, though only 4,000 persons a year can receive relief status; as such, according to PolitFact, having a child in order to gain citizenship for the parents is "an extremely long-term, and uncertain, process."[20] Approximately 88,000 legal-resident parents of US citizen children were deported in the 2000s, most for minor criminal convictions

LittlePhoenix schreef:Klopt, het kind sponsoort de ouders dan niet maar er is een uitzonderingsregel waardoor ouders bij hun kind kunnen blijven. Het kind is namelijk Amerikaans en mag dus het land niet uitgezet worden maar kan natuurlijk ook niet zonder de ouders in Amerika blijven. Of het echt legaal is weet ik niet maar ik weet wel dat het af en toe op die manier lukt om hier te blijven.