How about this idea: Send them to Hawaii and Illinois, Obama's home state and adopted state. I'm sure the good people of those states in Hawaii and Illinois would be most happy to greet as many of the illegal immigrant children as Obama can send them.
But I forgot this: I think Hawaii, with its large Asian population, only accepts illegal immigrants who sneak into Hawaii from Asia.
To control our southern borders and stop the thousands of children from Latin America from sneaking into the United States, we need at least two new amendments to the Constitution, something like this:
1. "School attendance: Only citizens, legal residents, those with special student visas can attend elementary, high school, and colleges in the United States."
2. "One parent must be a citizen before a newborn child is given automatic citizenship."
3. Felony: We must finally declare that crossing the border illegally is a felony.
Illegal parents come to the United States for the wonderful benefits that their children can receive, like a quality education and great health care. Can you blame them for making the dangerous, long trip with their young children, or sending their children by themselves with the hope that the United States will automatically let them stay?
I don't understand how a child can illegally cross the southern border one day and automatically be eligible to enroll in public school the next day. That is wrong.
“2. “One parent must be a citizen before a newborn child is given automatic citizenship.”
I’d cut a bit more slack on that. “One parent must be an American citizen - or both must be legal immigrants actively seeking and working towards citizenship for children to be granted automatic citizenship.”
If a couple is willing to move countries LEGALLY, I say give them the benefit of the doubt in writing, with the usual provisos. Get busted, you get deported and your family too (that is normal in the legal immigration process) - any children stripped of US citizenship.
I might throw in one more condition - that the legal immigrants have a net positive tax bill. That is for smarter people to debate.
CC
The answer to your question is here:
http://www.allanfavish.com/index.php/illegal-immigration/115-a-decision-under-fire-pfaelzer-decision-prop-187