The 14th should not change at all. Babies born in the US from illegal immigrants should be automatically considered US citizens.
Why?
People who commit crimes should reap the reward of their evil actions?
This entire country is built on premises like the sins of the father don't translate to the son.
That's okay, we're discussing the sins of the mother.
No reason she should be rewarded for her crime, either.
Meanwhile, citizenship is granted to babies of parents lawfully in the United States because their parents are citizens. It's not complicated. The kid has brown eyes because mommy has brown eyes, it has US citizenship because it's mommy has US citizenship.
The baby has done nothing; has committed no crime...The parents have broken the law and they can be sent home but there is no reason to punish the child.
Exactly. So when we deport it's mother, it would be a crime to seperate the family simply because the child was wrongly granted citizenship it's parents didn't earn for it.
Even if those parents take the child home with them, that child should still be considered a US citizen.
Why? It's not like we're having problems breeding our own citizens. Hell, we even have a national industry of public schools that produce hordes of unskilled uneducated kiddies who can't speak English. Since we don't have a shortage, we don't need to import any.
Or at least have dual citizenship until age 18 and then the option to pick one citizenship at that age.
Or, better yet, send them, along with their parent, back to the country they're supposed to be in, and if the child wishes to emigrate from there to the US when he's older, he can get at the back of the line at the US embassy in that nation, just like everyone else, and fill out the forms and wait for our generosity.
The parent, being formerly illegal, should never be granted any form of visa at any time for any reason whatsoever.
To systematically reject these babies as non-citizens spits in the face of what it means to be an American.
No, they're non-citizens. So there's no conflict with being an American and sending non-citizens back to their nation of origin.
Being "American" does not mean being "gullible", "stupid", "soft-headed", "soft-hearted", "ignorant", "foolish", "easy", or "simple".
It says that we have rejected the ideals of the country that accepts all legal comers (again, the baby has broken no laws).
The baby was not a legal entry.
If you insist that it was, please point to the approved immigration application the pregnant mother filled out prior to entering the United States.