[fr_freak]

“Shouldn’t have been citizens anyway,” what does that mean?

The granting of citizenship to the children of people who were not in the country as citizens or legal residents is only a fairly recent interpretation of the 14th Amendment. Prior to that, the parents would have had to establish legal permanent residency in order to confer automatic citizenship on their children based purely on being born on US soil.

This link will explain it better than I would:

http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.459/pub_detail.asp

[LifeComesFirst]

Okay, but what’s to be done? What if one of these people has kids or grandkids here, when does the illegitimacy of citizenship end? What if their offspring’s parentage includes bona fide citizens?

I don’t think solving the illegal immigration problem is going to be easy, and people calling for wholesale deportation of millions of people are asking for what is politically impossible due to special interests and so forth. Because they won’t bend, they will break, and the path-to-citizenship, votings rights, and welfare state crowd will simply get their way.