[SmithL]

The 9th Circus continues its attack on America.

[Mr. K]

"you can have possible breakups of families"

Only if they don't take their children with them when we boot their illegal ass out of our country.

If I went to France (or Mexico) and had a baby I would not expect them to declare the child a citizen and let me live there free and pay me to live there if I did not have a job.

I would go home and take my baby with me.

[South40]

Give them jobs, instate tuition, entitlements and they will come.

Cease giving them jobs, instate tuition, entitlements and they will leave.

[org.whodat]

Does not, it is about the time period under which your citizenship can be removed after committing a felony.

[School of Rational Thought]

"possibility of breakup of families"

Why are they so quick to abandon their families. If family was so important why would they not return to country of origin? What is it about their culture that makes family so unimportant?

[PoloSec]

I see no reason why going back to Mexico should break up the family.

Under this reasoning you could not send someone to prison for breaking the law, because it might break up the family, going back to Mexico just means you take your family with you, going to prison not so much, although it does happen.

[MizSterious]

"..."you can have possible breakups of families" in certain circumstances. "

Well, don't mean to sound hard-hearted here, but families are separated all the time. My dad was in the Navy during WWII, and he went lots of places the rest of us could not go, for security reasons. Every day, on some military base somewhere, someone on active duty has to go somewhere without his or her family, often for long deployments.

There are other reasons, too. But the worst reason to keep a family together is so that they can continue to break the law--as illegals are clearly doing.

[concerned about politics]

Cut of all forms of welfare and hiring for illegals. They'll have no reason to even come here. Not only would it be logical - it would be absolutely free. The illegal immigration problem would solve itself overnight.

The same thing applies to sharing the wealth. Instead of sharing what others have earned, why not share the WORK and allow the wealth share itself? Social programs would come to an end overnight - and that wouldn't cost us one red cent, either!

Both are a win/win.

[Lurking Libertarian]

The title of the article is misleading. This decision has zero impact on illegal aliens. It applies only to aliens who are in the country legally but then commit a crime before they become naturalized citizens. There is a complex statute setting forth when such an alien is deportable; it depends partly on the seriousness of the crime and partly on how long the alien was here legally before the crime was committed. The 9th Circuit decision hinged on the second factor. Even if the Supreme Court were to affirm the 9th Circuit's ruling, Congress could change this by statute any time it wanted to.

[longtermmemmory]

custody follows the parents not the child.

He should be deported for this BS

[BuckeyeTexan]

SCOTUS ping

(Anyone on/off, freepmail me.)

[longtermmemmory]

custody follows the parents not the child.

He should be deported for this BS

[Cowboy Bob]

Everyone seems to ignore the fact that a child of illegals who was born in the US has dual citizenship. That child is a citizen of the US, as well as Mexico (or whatever other country the parents come from).

If the parents are kicked out, the child can go back with them.

There is nothing magical that requires the child to stay in the US.

[Crucial]

I’ve got an idea, why not let them all unite...in Mexico.

[HiJinx]

Ping!