If Americans are disturbed about what is happening along our southwest border, most would be utterly appalled to learn about the situation on the island of Saipan.

Since Saipan is a United States Commonwealth, those born here are granted United States citizenship. However, the island controls its own immigration system independent of the federal government.

As you could imagine, quite an industry has sprung up with pregnant women flying in from all over Asia to have U.S. citizen babies. Pregnant women from the People's Republic of China, the Philippines, Korea, Thailand and Bangladesh routinely fly to Saipan to give birth to U.S. citizen children, all entering U.S. soil without any federal oversight whatsoever. It's America's largest backdoor and it's swinging wide open on rusty hinges.

Additionally, those who enter the island, without any federal background checks or screening, are able to obtain domestic United States ID's, including drivers' licences, social security cards and they also gain access to the domestic United States banking system.

In these days of increased attention being paid to the security of our Homeland, it would be nice to imagine that the effort was more than just lip service.