It is a crime to enter this country illegally. It is a crime to remain in this country. Yet you provide for the greatest inducement available, an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born to non-citizens.
Pearce asserts that the current interpretation of the 14th Amendment incentivizes illegal immigration and calls for its revision.
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