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Originally Posted by Brillopad

Surely children born in another country of parents from overseas should have dual citizenship - it should be a condition when people emigrate. The citizenship should be made up of place of birth of the child and homeland/nationality of the parents and the biological and cultural roots/history involved.

So if said child commits heinous crimes in the country of their birth they can be deported back to their parents/grandparents homeland where their biological and cultural roots lie, not to mention their obvious religous and emotional ties. If they have dual citizenship the other country involved cannot refuse to take them back.

That way it places some accountability and responsibility onto the parents and the child to respect and value the country that has taken them in and to realise there are potential consequences for severe abuse of their citizenship.

And how many generations would you suggest this should last? Does it only apply to middle-eastern people or to everyone? Could I be deported to Ireland because I have a great-grandparent on my father's side who was from Ireland? Could I be deported to a Scandinavian country because, somewhere way down the line, I have a little bit of Viking blood?