STREET BEAT: ‘Should everyone born in the U.S. automatically have citizenship?’

Faye Guyen

Culver City

“Yes. The parent may not be a legal citizen, but the baby is. If we allow the mother to go into the hospital and have the baby, then the baby is a U.S. citizen.”

Jahsinger Gilkey

Los Angeles

“Yes. This is a stolen country, and it doesn’t belong to the dudes making citizenship laws because they took this country from someone else.”

AzIz Diagne

Los Angeles

“Anyone born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen. … There’s no discussion about that.” 

Diane Bergman

Los Angeles

“There should be levels of citizenship.  If you come here just to have a baby … then the baby should have a level of citizenship, but not full.”

Compiled by Cynthia Gibson in Leimert Park Village.