As a naturalized U.S. citizen, I am grateful for the process I followed to obtain my citizenship.  It required me to be a legal immigrant, wait five years, take a couple of courses, pass a test, and finally fulfill my goal.  It was a great moment when I took the oath and got my certificate. Over the last few years, we've seen an emphasis on something called "birthright citizenship," and I don't like it. It also encourages fraud, as we see in this post by Hans A. von Spakovsky: Under birthright citizenship, any child born in the U.S. is automatically an American citizen at birth — even if the child's parent or parents are here illegally. A recent federal indictment of 19 individuals on immigration fraud charges shows that a whole industry has grown up to bring pregnant women from other countries to the U.S. so their children can be born as American citizens.  The 19 indicted people were charged with operating...(Read Full Post)