.That is a great point AAA. An illegal immigrant just being here is a violation of the law, they are illegally occupying the country, nothing they do while they are here is legal or legitimate.
Yes it is a living document, and there is a process to modify it. That process is not leftist courts 'interpreting' it differently than the people who created it in the first place.
Thank you very much Arnie, for digging this up. Of course citizenship does not automatically extend to the children of those here illegally, whether born here or not! There should never have been a reasonable doubt about that. I interpreted GWB's remark to be referring to the insanity of interpreting the 14th in a way that would grant citizenship to babies born to those here illegally. That would indeed be insane. The Dream Act was, in my opinion, a reasonable why to resolve the situation were a non-citizen that has lived there entire life in the U.S. can be afforded a path to citizen ship. And it is consistent with the 14th. Why can't we just get on with it, tighten up the borders, do a better job of going after the employers of illegals and move on?
I was living in Nogales when they first tried to "Tighten up the borders, do a better job of going after e verify" and it would have just about destroyed the economy of the whole town. Looks nice on paper when you are far away from it in an office with a computer, but quite a bit different when it is real people, both Mexicans and Americans you are talking about.
Yes, Stu is right about what it says, but not about what it means.
These are precisely the considerations that muddy the waters and our laws. This is an example of why the pictures are seldom black, but nearly always gray.