It’s time to consider changes to the 14th amendment:
Pleading to keep families intact

As the government’s crackdown on illegal immigrant workers has intensified in recent months, so have the consequences for a large group of U.S. citizens: American-born children of illegal immigrants.

At least the author was realistic:

“Kids often pay for the bad decisions of their parents. If you do something wrong that sends you to jail, well, your kids suffer for that. If you are careless with your mortgage and lose your house, your kids suffer along with you,” he said. The parents “knew what they were doing when they had kids here, knowing that they were still illegal immigrants.”

I think that the media and lawmakers need to keep in mind who these people are:  criminals and scofflaws.

I’m in favor of encouraging legal immigration and I think that we need to improve the process and increase the numbers of immigrants taken into the US each year, but I also think that we need to treat those who ignore our laws as the criminals they are.