writes:

Jose asked:
While children of illegal aliens are currently considered to be US
citizens, perhaps it's time to amend the law (retroactively) to
exclude the children of those who cross the US border ILLEGALLY from
that right.

It's the children's fault?

I believe the children are only citizens if they are BORN in the US. I
don't think very many countries have that particular law.

I'm also not sure that "fault" applies.

One case I don't want to create, which has existed in Switzerland and
I think Germany and France (may have been fixed by EU action, my
experience with it is quite old), is where guest workers (from places
like Turkey) live their lives and raise their families in the country,
but their children have no legal right of residence there -- even
though they've rarely or never visited their "home" country, and in
some cases don't even speak the language. Possibly our approach goes
too far; and at the same time it *doesn't* cover children brought in
as infants and raised entirely here.

The illegal immigrants, the people who hire them, and the various
governments have all allowed this mess to be created. It'll be
interesting to see how it works out.

Yes, lots of contributors, definitely.

This is rec.aviation.piloting, so to keep it in-field:
How many of the illegal immigrants come by small aircraft??

I haven't heard that it's very many.
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