All of my late arrival ancestors (1850 to 1870) became citizens, so yes it made sense that their children born in the US were automatically citizens. None of my early arrival ancestors (1630 to 1635) bothered to become citizens. DUH... they were here before the Rev. war and before the Constitution, and all of their children were citizens by nature of the fact that they helped found this country. AND because those here before that did not have any IMMIGRATION LAWS !!!

So, NO it makes no sense whatever that the bastard children of illegal immigrants, no matter their origin, should be citizens of the US just because they are born inside our borders!!!!!!!

You sure couldn't expect to be a citizen of Germany or Switzerland just because your parents happened to sneak into either of those countries just before you were born!?! Or Mexico either, but then why would anyone want to sneak in there????????

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1961 190Db retired
1968 220D/8 325,000
1983 300D 164,150