Don’t Leave The Child Behind
October 20th, 2007 by MorningStar

We keep hearing a lot about the little kids who are stranded after their illegal aliens parents are picked up and deported out of the United States, some of these kids are American citizens because they happened to have been born here, but many of them were brought here by their parents. The other dilemma we are hearing a lot about has to do with the children of illegal aliens who come here with their kids and put them through our school system. If the parents can avoid being apprehended and deported, their kids may end up going from kindergarten through 12th grade without a hitch. Some of these kids may be fairly good students who actually apply themselves to their education while avoiding the drugs and gangs that plague most schools in low-income areas. Once they graduate from high school, most of them are at a dead end because they are illegal aliens. They have lived most of their lives in the U.S. and got their education here but because they are illegal aliens they can’t get Social Security cards and find a job without fear of being deported. These are the kids that the Democrat’s DREAM Act is focused on and the congressional liberals insist on portraying them as victims of circumstances beyond their control because they didn’t ask to come here, their parents brought them when they were too young to resist and had no say in the decision. While the Democrats in Washington seem to think that these children represent an untapped resource that they American people should be willing to support and nurture, the children that were not born in this country are technically illegal aliens and under the provisions of federal law they should be deported regardless of how many years they have spent here, how many years of education they received here, or whether or not they are, as the Democrats tell us, victims of circumstance who had no choice in the matter.

Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution clearly states that, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.â€