So how do you feel about deporting 2 year old citizens?
I'm pretty sure that the parents have a choice. They can leave the children with relatives or they can put them up for adoption. We don't allow criminals to take their children to prison with them and we don't commute their sentences when they have children. Worst case, the children end up in foster care and I would never want that to happen to a child of mine. Nice try moke. You can't guilt me with this. The parents made a choice to be criminals. They are not being separated from their children, they can take their children home to the parent's country.
So, please clarify your point - Are you saying that if the parents are criminals and subject to deportation but have an anchor baby, we shouldn't be able to deport the parents because that is sure what it sound like. Please clarify for us. Explain in small words how we should not prosecute some crimes because the criminals are "nice" people with children.
Children are ALWAYS victims when their parents commit crimes. I'm not sure how to resolve that problem in a way that is fair to the non-criminals among us.
Any crime we do not have the will to enforce MUST be removed from the books. THAT is the only fair solution and I'm pretty sure that the average American citizen is not on board with having an open border so the immigration laws are not likely to be discarded any time soon.
Personally, I'm OK with an open border but for the border to be open, we need to completely close down the welfare state. NO foreign national should be "entitled" to anything beyond emergency care in a hospital. No housing, no schooling for the children, no food stamps, no Medicaid, no work permit, etc, etc, etc,.