Illegal Immigrants Having More Kids in US

Illegals are well known (along the border towns) for risking the lives of the mother and the baby crossing over to get into the ER, specificaly for having an "anchor baby"...and to exploit the system...but what do ya do?...To turn them away when they are about to crown is unacceptable,and inhumane......The policy needs a real overhaul..... Reply

One simple solution would to add a line to the INS code: "...born on American soil, and at least one parent is already a citizen..." Reply

Try stopping calling them children of illegals, and start referring to the parents as parents of citizens. It may stop your hearts being so heartless. Reply

We are not really having a discussion about semantics here, 38. We are discussing a policy that acts as a magnet for "undocumented migrants." I believe the quota for Latin American (especially Mexican) immigrants should be increased. As I understand the system, both Mexico and Nepal are allowed 20,000 applicants per year. That makes no sense. However, once we have sensible laws in place (including a path to citizenship for law abiding undoucmented alien residents with US citizen offspring,} I believe the borders should be sealed and the laws should be enforced. Reply

Oh, I think a constitutional amendment will be required to eliminate the magnet. Reply

wow...kokuaguy...you nailed right on the head...especialy on the "semantics".....Remove the incentive or "magnet" . I have immigrant friends from Mexico, Peurto Rico, England, Russia....ALL without exception bring a wonderfull diversity, and different perspectives on things,....But they are here as legal immigrants.....I am all for LEGAL IMMIGRATION Reply

We need to stop the mexican women from coming across the border illegally in the first place. When I lived in Deming they would bus over mexicans to go to school just because they were born in the US, but they still lived in mexico. STop the flow of the illegals over the border in the first place. And no matter what people say, they are illegal aliens. Their children should have no citizenship in this country Reply

Why are Americans trained to be so heartless and apathetic? You who say that the constitution be revised and that we build a great wall along the mexican border have not lived the lives that the immigrants have lived and I would love to see you suffer what they suffer for a long enough time until you understand what it means to be so desperate to cross the US border to live in the US. This system as it is, is cruel and unjust. The monetary system must be abolished, and your brains must be cleaned of all the dirt and greed and biases and conditioning, etc... I am an upperclass white U.S. citizen born in the US of white American Citizens, and I am speaking for the human race, and I am no humanitarian; as it is I would like everyone to stop having babies for at least a decade, take serious action, abolish ignorance, understand each other, clean up, change, and then maybe start having more babies... I am so disgusted of some of you people who want to isolate land to certain people and bar it up against others... Don't you understand that we all die in the end (maybe tonight - there is no tomorrow), so what's all the fighting worth anyway? Humans have the greatest potential in the world to be so much more and yet the majority choose to be so much less, even less than animals (in how they think and behave unnaturally), and in spite of that, they actually believe that they are more than animals, civilized, and "advanced"... This is seriously messed up... Most immigrants are more human than the majority of the greedy American brutes. Some day... they'll look in the mirror with shame... Reply