[Paleo Conservative]

Even more outrageous is the fact that we hand out US citizenship to any child born in the US to parents who are only temporarily in this country. I think that children born to non-citizens who are not in this country on immigration visas should be considered as citizens of the parents' country, not the US.

[Libertina]

Believe me, when I was overseas, everyone in Asia (and I imagine other areas as well) knew that you only had to "drop one baby" in the US and then bring the family on over at your leisure - because you now had an AMERICAN "citizen" child. It made me very angry. But of course, if we are chumps we can't blame the rest of the world for "playing."

[JohnBovenmyer]

Even more outrageous is the fact that we hand out US citizenship...

It may seem outrageous in some cases, but you'll have to amend the constitution to change it. That loophole resides there. Granting the difficulty of amendments those desiring to change the status quo need to focus their efforts on keeping such potential citizens out of the US while in utero.

[AmishDude]

Even more outrageous is the fact that we hand out US citizenship to any child born in the US to parents who are only temporarily in this country. I think that children born to non-citizens who are not in this country on immigration visas should be considered as citizens of the parents' country, not the US.

Unfortunately, you've got to pass a constitutional amendment. I believe it's the 14th amendment -- designed to give citizenship to the former slaves -- that was written so poorly that later courts ruled that anyone born on US soil became a US citizen.