[Mr Ramsbotham]

In the first place, it would consign many people born, raised and educated here to inferior status, forever.

I don't think so, because the Constitution also prohibits the ex post facto application of laws. At least that's what logic and a clear reading of the Constitution tells me. Heaven knows, logic and clear reading have had little to do with it the past forty years or so.

[Regulator]

In the first place, it would consign many people born, raised and educated here to inferior status, forever

BUNK. They would be nationals of their parents home country. They can easily move there - which they SHOULD - and enjoy whatever rights of citizens of that country have.