The 14th amendment contributes to illegal immigration, by making every one born here a U.S citizen, regardless of HOW their parents came to be in this country. Its a flaw that needs to be fixed. Unfortunately, I am very pessimistic we will find the votes to get it done. And there's the idiotic U.S Supreme Court decision back from 1982 Pyle V. Texas that compels state governments to provide a free public education to every illegal alien school child. As you can undoubtedly gather there a legal framework in place to facilitate making life easier in this country for foreign law-breakers. And extending sec. 245i would simply exacerbate the problem. What with the legal academy on the left you all can see the challenge involved in reclaiming our country.
Yes, you're exactly right about the 14th. It changes the relationship between the federal and state governments and that's why it never garnered the number of states necessary for ratification. In the 60's some Southerners tried to get the ball rolling to rescind the 14th on the grounds that it was never ratified. They were lambasted in the press as racists and hatemongers.
The amendment could be rescinded by state action much more simply than by the cumbersome method of trying to repeal reams of federal laws based on the 14th. Before the 14th, the federal government had very little say in processes of naturalization, which were all state processes. Citizenship was a state granted status and the Constitution never contained a grant of power for the federal government to grant or deny citizenship.
It's glaringly obvious that federal control of immigration is a miserable failure. It was designed to fail in every way except as a tool for manipulation of the makeup of American society. When my child gets hold of one of my tools and sets about doing something destructive with it, I take it away from her. That's what the states need to do with the federal government which is their child and not their parent.