NEWS…
an article in the guardian: Ireland is on the move - but where to?
and in light of the upcoming citizenship referendum:
Labour says citizenship proposal ‘deeply flawed’
you know i never really bothered to look at how the U.S. deals with this, but a bit of checking reveals that we (the U.S.) actually have no law that forbids the deportation of non-citizen parents of children who are U.S. citizens, but it rarely happens. also if a child is born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants, judges usually allow the parents to reside legally in the U.S., or simply do no initiate deportation proceedings (they keep an undocumented status, but are not persecuted for it.)i don’t really have a strong position on ireland’s citizenship policy, but i do think the hysteria about “citizenship tourism” is pretty amusing. i mean, i know this irish guy whose parents traveled to canada each time to give birth to their children, so that now he and his siblings all hold dual canadian and irish passports… um, who’s the “citizenship tourist” now?