[Pubbie]

You could deport the illegals, however nearly all of them have young children who were born in the US, and are citizens. Since those kids (ie Anchor Babies) are citizens, you can't deport them, but if they don't go with the parents back to Mexico, the media will accuse you of breaking up Hispanic families.

Again, changing the immigration laws to drop Hispanic Immigration and raising Eastern Europeans, would be far simpler to do over the long term

[Reaganwuzthebest]

You could deport the illegals, however nearly all of them have young children who were born in the US, and are citizens.

Growing a spine means more than just enforcing the law against the illegals themselves, but revamping immigration laws to reflect modern times. They do not need to change the Constitution to end the scam of anchor babies, I don't care what any politician says. There is a clause in the 14th Amendment which gives Congress leeway in how citizenship is applied to foreigners. Only two countries in the world allow the practice of automatic citizenship, and of course the US has to be one of them.

Again, it's a matter of showing backbone and doing what's right for the country.

[FITZ]

You could deport the illegals, however nearly all of them have young children who were born in the US, and are citizens. Since those kids (ie Anchor Babies) are citizens, you can't deport them, but if they don't go with the parents back to Mexico, the media will accuse you of breaking up Hispanic families.

Immigration laws definitely need to be changed ---we could probably handle a few more of the worker types if we weren't taking in so many welfare types. The anchor baby scam needs to be ended immediately and all immigrants need to get cut off welfare programs. Mothers of these anchor babies often will tell welfare they don't know who the father is while they're living with him in a common law marriage ----just because they've already figured out how welfare works.