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Hope I'm not intruding, but I'd like to clarify for you:

Basically, this is what TT is proposing in a nutshell, and it's what we all want:

NO MORE BENEFITS FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS AT OUR TAXPAYER EXPENSE!! Of course, the specific points must be spelled out and the libs will pick it all apart, but in essence, Tom Tancredo is a hero for our citizens not to bankroll illegals. Also, deportation enforcement!!! Probably not a ghost's chance in hell in getting by 'open borders GW', but we gotta keep it in the news. Hope I helped.

There are different ways to derive US Citizenship. You can derive "from the soil" which is still referred to as
Jus Solei (I think it's Latin) so as soon as you are born on US soil you are automatically a US citizen, regardless of your mother and father. Or you can derive citizenship "through the blood", a USC woman or man parents a child who is born outside the US, the child derives his citizenship through the blood ties to his parents.
The last is to become a citizen by Naturalization, holding your hand up and pretending to (in the case of many, I'm sure)swear allegiance to the US.
The requirements for deriving citizenship from the blood and the soil from 1920 - 1960's were very strict and complicated, and physical presence in the US was required of the parents and child in order to prove the right to derive. Naturalization Law is one of the toughest parts of the Immigration Academy for Immigration officers to study and pass. Jus Solei was a useful concept when the country was being "built by immigrants."
But now it is just another reason that hundreds of thousands of women travel to the US to give birth without paying a dime for medical expenses. 18 yr old USC kids can then petition for their parents to get green cards.
In effect, another form of chain migration (anchor babies).