Opinion

Immigration laws need to be changed

Posted September 25, 2007 11:00 pm

Theodore Utchen proposed that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution be corrected to solve the problem of citizenship. (Fence Post, Aug. 25). The amendment states that if a person is born or naturalized in the United States, he is a citizen. Utchen would change this so that "All persons born in the United States to parents lawfully in the United States at the time of the person's birth, or naturalized in the United States, are citizens of the United States."

We do not need to amend our Constitution. What we need is a change in our immigration laws.

When the 14th Amendment was written (not by the original drafters of the Constitution), the authors could not have known that immigration laws would be passed that were so stringent that it would take years to enter our country legally. Would anyone try to enter our country illegally if our laws were conducive to legal entry?

Do not change our Constitution. Change our immigration laws.

Chuck Coletta

Lombard

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