Do you agree with supporters that having kids means the laws do NOT apply if you are illegal & have kids?

World wide there is only one real security issue. Overpopulation.

More people need more resources but less resources remain.

The result is that either we can control populations world wide or ultimately billions of people must die from starvation/disease/war/pestilence/natural disasters or social decay.

However nations do insist they have the right to make their own laws and most overpopulated countries do not follow China's lead and make a maximum of one child a mandatory policy.

So they do need to try to export their unwanted surplus population.

I can't blame the parents for wanting a better life, especially for their children, but they must understand that they are already a part of the problem. If they had not had the children in the first place the kids would not be paying the price already.

If the problem is simply exported then the solution is delayed, the populations grow, and many more millions will eventually die.

So there is a need to be draconian. Why should the children be given a " free pass". They will grow up and breed. They will in turn add to the problem in still more places. That is no long term solution.

We can feel sorry for them but how do we address the real problem?

How do we prevent the world from collapsing under the weight of its own population?

There are never any such things as rights, no matter what law makers might imply.

One persons " rights" are simply someone else's "responsibilities"

To give migrants a right is to say that others must bear the responsibility for the problem.

This is just a blame shifting game.

I can understand that states near the borders feel a disproportionate share of the burden of uncontrolled immigration. So they may well wish to limit the traditional views of the rights of children

But those views had always been that a child BORN in a country was entitled to a residency not just a child that had crossed a border.

Are the laws anti immigrant? Quite probably. Does that make them bad?

If you dispute the argument that overpopulation is a problem then the laws must be bad.

If you accept the argument then can you suggest an alternative that actually works?

Well said, Andrew. Why should American kids suffer so that Mexican kids have "better" lives? This is certainly what is happening in the public schools, where curriculum must be dumbed down and aides brought in to translate, since we lack the collective courage to mandate the all children SPEAK ENGLISH as a requisite for enrollment in school. I've beyond had it up to HERE with P.C. Illegal immigration has taken a terrible toll on this nation. Only when we reverse the tide and focus on our home-grown problematic minorities, will we be able to restore AMERICA to AMERICANS.

Irish mom go back to Irish obviously ur also illegal b I t c h