And I think we can find a rational way forward, somewhere in between automatic citizenship and kicking people out of the country.

Israel also offers automatic citizenship to any Jew who wishes to become a citizen.

There is no longer a provision that would have denied automatic citizenship to the children born to illegal immigrants.

It is a condition only for receiving automatic and immediate citizenship under the Law of Return.

The law ended the practice of granting automatic citizenship to women by marriage.

Portugal continued to give the citizens of Portuguese India automatic citizenship.

It's politicizing the law of return to the homeland, so that Jews can be refused automatic citizenship.

At the same time, the Constitution recognized the civil rights of free blacks and mulatos but explicitly denied them automatic citizenship.

Many said that despite immediate and automatic citizenship in West Germany, the trip for them was to a country not their own.

Despite this official discourse of universality, French nationality has not meant automatic citizenship.