Regardles of their children, they themselves are still illegal. They are still criminals. That crime should qualify for them to have their parental rights revoked and their children taken from them and adopted by people who are citizens or here legally. Surely if the illegal immigrant parents truly wanted what is best for their children, they would not disagree. Illegal immigrant parents who simply want to use their children as surrogate green cards for their own selfish benefit are a different matter. That would put an end to the whole "anchor baby" issue, and wouldn't require any changes to the Constitution or terms of citizenship.This was already changed by statute, about 10 years ago. A child born here to an illegal alien is a U.S. citizen, but cannot petition for his or her parents to stay here until the child is 18. The net effect is that, unless the child is put up for adoption, the parents have to take the child with them when they are deported.
The net effect is that, unless the child is put up for adoption, the parents have to take the child with them when they are deported. "When" they are deported? Shouldn't that be "if, by some small miracle, law enforcement actually does its job and they are deported.
And therein lies the problem.
I would like to know how it is that Silvia Moreno, a publically admitted illegal, is still in the country and not being detained pending her deportation hearing. Why aren't the people we pay our hard earned tax dollars to enforce immigration laws doing their jobs?