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Originally Posted by asawadude
It's time to change the 14th Amendment. The childen of undocumented immigrants should not become U.S. citizens by birthright. They should instead inherit the status of their parent(s). That alone should eliminate some of the incentives to cross the border illegally.
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I would agree with that. I don't think it would remove all incentive to cross the border illegally though. I doubt many women sneak across the border with the plan to get pregnant, have a kid, and collect welfare. I could be wrong, but I doubt this is a sizable number we are talking about here. I think it just happens once they are here. If you remove the welfare, then you will just have a bunch of hungry and homeless kids like you have here in NY.
I'm not sure what the numbers are out there, but in NYC over 50% of the homeless people are children under the age of 12.