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Originally Posted by CrusaderRabbit08
You can't pass a law that supersedes the Constitution. According to the 14th amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Nothing short of another constitutional amendment can change this.
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I think maybe I might not be communicating my main point:
Legality is really not an issue in the larger scheme of things concerning the larger issue of illegal immigration.
It's not worth it to make a rather hard to remove ammendment for the purpose of solving a pet issue of today... when it won't solve the problem anyway!
Plus... if we can't pass laws for dealing with the more pressing larger problem, how will we see an ammendment pass that deals with a smaller subissue.
But most of all... is the problem that makes this so contentious really about the kids becoming citizens? No. In other times that has been helpful rather than a problem.
The reason people are all over it now is because they wrongly believe that changing this particular law will reduce illegal immigration and the net problems involved.
All it will really do is cause the problem to go even further underground.
To actually solve the problem requires going for the root.