It amazes me that everyone spends so much time insinuating that Americans are cruel for their opinions and actions on illegal immigrants.

I'm saying the opposite- I have great respect for the decency of the US public. Come on, people like you would be horrified at the idea that 5,000 new orphanages are needed in the US to house kids forcibly separated from their parents by authorities. It won't happen.

Only a few European countries still grant automatic citizenship at birth. The United Kingdom and Australia repealed their U.S.-style policies in the 1980s after witnessing abuses similar to those plaguing the U.S. today.

I'm sure this will happen in the US, since you can't do what New Zealand does- which is to require airlines to ensure passengers have necessary documentation before they can get onto a plane going to new Zealand. NZ still sees people using false passports and ripping them up en route so they can claim refugee status on arrival, which really grates because that is blatant, calculated fraud. My point was that there are already millions of citizens in the US with illegal parents who cannot simply be deported. Changing automatic citizenship now will reduce the problem's growth but won't cure it.