[lentulusgracchus]

Pass a law that says that the children of illegals are not citizens.

If you do that, the problem population balloons to something over 30 million.

The employers are indeed the problem. They don't want American workers. They want illegals that they can bullyrag and pay substandard wages and even stiff on payday if things are a little pinchy. IOW, they want labor relations rolled back to 1880, and illegals are just a vehicle for doing that.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>Pass a law that says that the children of illegals are not citizens.

If you do that, the problem population balloons to something over 30 million.<<

No, that law would apply only to future births. You can’t revoke citizenship like that.

But you can bet that the ACLU and others would say that law violates the 14th amendment, and there would be a long court battle. I don’t know who would win that battle — there are arguments on both sides.

[Defiant]

I don't think you can make a law that denies citizenship to the children of illegals retroactive. We are stuck with those that are here. We CAN change the laws that let the parents stay just because they were here illegally when they had a baby.

Current law makes anyone born here a citizen. We would have to pass a law that says the opposite, and survive a 14th Amendment challenge in order to change things, and it could not be applied retroactively to people who are currently US citizens.