[DC Bound]

"your wetback mother calving 1 foot this side of the border should not mean you are automatically a citizen."

This is offensive and idiotic. Period.

[Iron Eagle]

I agree that the comments are clearly over the line, and unfortunate.

Interestingly, the poster stumbled onto one of the truly fascinating part of this immigration maze. That is, the Constitutional interpretation that being born here illegally automatically grants citizenship. There is no question that that is the law. But should it be?

The section of the Constitution used as the foundation of that interpretation has to do with the rights of "Citizens."

In addition, and far more importantly from a legal standpoint, there is no precedent in the common law prior to the Constitution or since that would reward illegal activity. Indeed, in criminal law, the state loses its evidence if it illegally searches and seizes one's property. (no fruit of the poisonous tree). On the civil side, we disgorge unjustly enriched defendants, and we hold that contracts to perform illegal activities are void abinitio (from inception). Accordingly, how is it that one can profit from the illegal act of entering the Country illegally? It is certainly something to consider.

[JudyB1938]

Maybe so, but I feel the same way no matter how one says it.