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You're looking at one scenario which doesn't come up too frequently, and based on that you've decided that the way your country does it is better. Maybe you're right.
Here's a different scenario where I think the US does it better: when citizenship is only inherited, a person could be born in your country, live their whole lives knowing only your culture, and still not be considered a citizen because their parents were immigrants. Or worse, their grandparents were immigrants. That's a homegrown underclass.
I don't assume that the US has everything figured out, but there's a reason a nation of immigrants values the rights of immigrants.
I’m not saying my country does it better btw.
In your scenario, the parents lived in the country all that time without booming citizens, so were there illegally.
There’s a difference between immigrants and illegal immigrants.