“That’ll never happen, of course. But it makes sense to me.”
As a partial solution, and the toughest one likely to pass in modern America, I agree. However, I continue to see no basis in the law for believing those born in America to illegal immigrants are born citizens. I would argue the best solution is to deport both the parents, and the child, since the child is not an American citizen. But I also understand that no court, and probably no legislature, is willing to do that...
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We’ve built an administrative system that assumes that all persons born in the United States are citizens whether their parents are here legally or not. They get a US birth certificate, and they’re good to go.
I’ve suggested elsewhere that Congress could pass a law denying US citizenship to the children born here of illegal aliens. It would have to create some administrative system where we checked for parents’ legal status before issuing a birth certificate. Any such law would be challenged in court and might or might not be struck down.
All of this is theoretical, and presumes the political will to pass such a law. It’s not there now, and I doubt it ever will be.
The child is a citizen - by law of the United States.