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Legal scholars and constitutional lawyers please opine. Many people want to discontinue the federal government’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause. People feel that it is just plain wrong for people to be awarded citizenship because their parents broke the law. The illegal immigrant parents will become legal citizens too when their citizen children turn 18, so who needs all that headache of jumping through amnesty hoops. (They can become a citizen here and never learn English). Anybody who didn’t qualify for amnesty (with legal documents or falsified documents) in 1986 just stayed anyway. There are four ways...

<p>When Clint Haines last scoured the highlands of central Vietnam, he was part of a US Army "hunter-killer" team, an airborne cavalry unit that swept low over the treetops, drawing fire from an invisible enemy and calling in strikes on hidden encampments. Thirty-two years on, Haines has returned to his old battlefield with the same stomach-churning, heart-pounding thrill of mission he felt every morning he boarded his helicopter in 1971. Only this time, Haines is not hunting for Viet Cong -- he is searching for the child he fathered and has never known.</p>