John Derbyshire on Illegal Immigration
Scroll down to the end of the first page , and continue to the next - I promise that it will be worth it. FWIW, I'm with the Derb - illegal immigration isn't a complicated moral issue, it's a relatively straightforward legal one - it's ILLEGAL! When we catch them, deport them - posthaste! With their kids - you have two choices here - either you take away their "birthright" citizenship, on the grounds that it was obtained in the course of an illegal act on the part of the parents, or you give the parents two choices: Take the kid(s) with you when you leave - the kid(s) will have an expedited right to apply for return upon reaching 18 - assuming no criminal convictions, ability to support oneself, etc. Leave the kid(s) - we'll arrange for adoption. Sounds hard-hearted? Well, yes - IF you think only of the illegal trespassers. OTOH, if you consider that every border-jumper is taking the food out of the mouths of American citizens, and that the c...