sticking to the fourteenth amendment
Changing the Fourteenth Amendment is simply a bad policy decision. The laws around receiving citizenship from parents is very complicated, and reconsidering the citizenship of so many Americans would become a huge mess for the already unorganized immigration department in Homeland Securities. Legally, immigration is additionally extremely complicated. Many people around the world might not know that they are American citizens. For many of those people, as well as current citizens residing in the US, documents proving citizenship are hard to come by. A study by the Brennan Center [for Justice] at New York University [School of Law] found that 13 million American Adults did not have documentation of their citizenship easily accessible. Most citizens can just show a valid birth certificate in place of papers. The law regarding “derivative citizenship” is extremely complex. Children born overseas to citizens of the US often face many challenges overcoming the complex laws. Of those children, accidental deportations are fairly common. If we remove it, many children, such as children of refugees, will be left without citizenship to any country.