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Billionaire businessman Donald Trump wants to stop automatically giving U.S. citizenship to anyone who is born in the United States. Mr. Trump is the leading Republican presidential candidate. He says automatic citizenship is the reason many women come to the United States illegally and give birth. He wants to cancel the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” are citizens. In five months, voters in some states will begin choosing the Republican party’s presidential nominee. All of the seventeen Republican candidates have called for strong measures to stop people from entering the country illegally, especially from Mexico. But not all of them support ending automatic citizenship for people born in the United States. Public opinion surveys show former Florida governor Jeb Bush and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio are two of the strongest Republican presidential candidates. Neither man agrees with Mr. Trump.
* citizenship = 시민[공민]권/ presidential candiate = 대통령 후보자/ give birth = 출산하다, 아이를 낳다/ Amendment = 미국 헌법 수정 조항/ the U.S. Constitution = 미국 헌법/ naturalize = (외국인을) 귀화시키다/ presidential nominee = 대통령 후보[지명자]/ call for ~ = ~을 요구하다/ public opinion = 여론
Mr. Bush says people born in the U.S. have what he calls a “constitutionally-protected right” to become American citizens. Senator Rubio said he would support measures to stop women from coming to the United States illegally to give birth to children so their babies will automatically be citizens. But he says he does not support cancelling the 14th Amendment. Other Republican candidates say they support Mr. Trump’s call for its cancellation. The Center for Immigration Studies seeks to limit immigration to the United States. It says 30 of the world’s 194 countries give citizenship to people born in their country. But it says the United States and Canada are the only two developed countries that do so. It says some foreign women are entering the United States as what it calls “birth tourists.” It says they are giving birth to 36,000 babies yearly so that their children can become American citizens. In 2010, the Pew Hispanic Center estimated that eight percent of the 4.3 million babies born in the U.S. in 2008 were the children of people who had entered the country illegally.
* senator = 상원 의원/ measure = 조치[정책]/ immigration = 이주[이민]/ developed country = 선진국
