Republicans Looking To "Review" 14th Amendment

The 14th amendment, or more specifically the 'birth right citizenship' is something which Republicans including John McCain are looking to "review". In other words, they want the children of illegal aliens to not be considered citizens, even if they were born in the United States. I hate to admit it, but I agree with Republicans here: I don't think that the children of illegal aliens should be considered citizens. Furthermore, I believe that anyone that is found to have entered the country illegally should be immediately deported to their country of origin.

I know what you're thinking "if this happens then millions of illegal aliens will have to be deported", I believe this would be a good thing. We have millions of illegal aliens, many of which are involved with illegal activity. Right off the bat we know that these people do not respect U.S. law, we also know that most of these people are poor. Now what do poor poeple that don't respect the law do? They often do things illegally to make a living. It is not easy to get a job as an illegal alien, while at the same time, a drug distributor isn't going to worry about it all that much. To allow illegal aliens to live in this country, and accept them as citizens only acts as a reward for successfully breaking our immigration laws. If we were to deport all non-citizens, that would be much more of a deterrent. We have immigration laws for a reason, people that wish to enforce these laws are accused of being bigots, when it is simply not the case. I personally could care less what color an illegal alien's skin is, or what country they come from, if they are here illegally, they need to be deported. If an illegal alien has children, then (in my opinion) the children should be deported as well.

Perhaps we can increase the number of legal immigrants we let into the United States—but as stated before—laws must be enforced, otherwise there is no purpose of having such laws in the first place. Deporting all illegal aliens would save the government billions of dollars; we are essentially paying for these people to be here, and they are heavily involved in crime and mooching off the system. I believe that their free ride should end here.

The only exception from this would be if it was a child's great grandfather (and beyond) that came to this country illegally. Then such people should be considered citizens. I also believe that perhaps we could do more to help countries like Mexico with their economy. If poorer (expecially neighboring) countries were able to improve their standard of living, then their citizens wouldn't be so eager to hop the border into our country.

People that have been bashing Arizona's new laws which only help the state better enforce the law are the most racist among us. They try to make the issue of illegal aliens a 'race thing' when it is not. Ever hear of the saying "only a thief will accuse somebody of stealing"? Being against the enforcement of immigration laws is unpatriotic. Supporting increases in legal immigration is patriotic. Although redundant: breaking laws should have consequences. For example, if murder was punished by a $100 fine, it would not be much of a deterrent, and people would be killing other people a lot more. The punishment must be proportional to the crime, and the only punishment that is proportional here, for those that entered the country illegally is to deport them. There isn't much of a debate here; we have many law breakers in this country when it comes to immigration and their crimes must be punished.