>Regardless if you are born here you get citizenship... *snip*
That's the "problem" they're trying to solve. For years there's been a problem with women jumping the border just to give birth to their child, who is then a citizen and can freely cross the border. Sometimes the parents will use their status as the parents of a US citizen to stay here legally after immigrating illegally and sometimes they just send the kid here when they're old enough to work and send money home. But I digress. I think the thought behind it is simply to give people one less reason to immigrate illegally. Personally I doubt it'll pass, or hold up to its first legal challenge if it does. >Though I will say that it is the 14th "amendment" which means that it >was added too... thus can be taken away if the lawmakers so deem... >though I am not a fan of changing it. Eh, not quite. It takes another Constitutional amendment to override a Constitutional amendment. Given the requirements to get an ammendment passed and the current more-partisan-than-usual state of Congress there's little to no chance they could change it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317144 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
