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WASHINGTON -- A simple reform would drain some scalding steam from immigration arguments that may soon again be at a roiling boil. It would bring the interpretation of the 14th Amendment into conformity with what the authors of its text intended, and with common sense, thereby removing an incentive for illegal immigration.
To end the practice of "birthright citizenship," all that is required is to correct the misinterpretation of that amendment's first sentence: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they...
A Birthright? Maybe Not.
Except the fact...not knowing anything about your wife, I doubt if she had not married an American she'd not have been allowed in the US.
People aren't illegals because they are too lazy to fill out the forms they are illegal because they have no way to legally enter and work in the US and being an illegal in the US is much better than what most face in Mexico...something I might add that is heavily a result of NAFTA. In...