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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
Eh, I see your point but after having worked in a couple of areas near the Southern border I can tell you that we (taxpayers) pay for a lot of illegal prego women who come here for only one reason, to have babies and make the kids legal so they can live off the government. It really is pretty sad. I think if we started to charge their home countries the cost of their care things might tighten up a little.
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If the kid is born here, that kid is constitutionally a legal American citizen (amendment XIV, clause 1), whether the parent(s) are legal or not. So we ARE the kid's home country. Not that I'm advocating we pay for anything/everything.