[AmishDude]

Even more outrageous is the fact that we hand out US citizenship to any child born in the US to parents who are only temporarily in this country. I think that children born to non-citizens who are not in this country on immigration visas should be considered as citizens of the parents' country, not the US.

Unfortunately, you've got to pass a constitutional amendment. I believe it's the 14th amendment -- designed to give citizenship to the former slaves -- that was written so poorly that later courts ruled that anyone born on US soil became a US citizen.

[Poohbah]

Everyone says "read the original intent of the authors." The problem is very simple: the original intent of the authors is found in the wording they used.

The 14th was drafted in haste to be regretted in leisure. (I'm not against the basic concept, but they should've more tightly worded the thing.)