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In response to illegal immigration, the US House of Representatives is seeking to change the Constituation’s 14th amendment that grants American citizenship to any child born on the nation’s soil.

In an Op-Ed piece by the Washington Times noted that the problem about birth place and jurisdiction have been misued to misrepresent the framers intent.

But since the 1898 Supreme Court ruling, United States vs. Won Kim Ark, American courts have elevated birthplace over jurisdiction and allegiance. This has persisted to the present, to the point that last year, in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court granted full citizenship protections to Yaser Esam Hamdi, a Taliban fighter captured in Afghanistan who happened to have been born in Louisiana while his Saudi father had been working on a project for Exxon.

Last week I had raised this question along with Conservative Voice, concerning automatic citizenship for all including children of illegal immigrants. We will be watching any development on this topic.

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From California where immigrants (legal or illegal) can receive funding for HIV treatment to Belgium where a mother asks for ’sex help’ for her 27 year old disabled son. The mother’s attitude about life and the government’s role in people’s lives. As the mother said:

… he is entitled to have sex at least once week,??? Frie Van Acker says.

Of course this right, according to her, is the responsibility of the government. This attitude appears to be more prevalent in the United States. How much can the government be expected to care for everyone and their needs if they for whatever reason cannot provide it for themselves? The real irony is that the resources the government is willing to make aren’t enough. The demands made might eventually be met, until the next person comes along and demands even more.

The limited resources of a government cannot keep up with the growing needs and wants of the people. Just how far is society willing to go before they say ‘enough is enough’?

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The MercedSun-Star reported on a growing HIV threat among migrant farm workers coming to California from Mexico. The story centered around a wife whose husband died from the AIDS virus and she herself contracted it from him.

Men leaving their homes to provide a better ‘life’ for their families only put them in grave danger of an early grave. Instead of a new life the spouse shares in a devastating disease. Her sons work in a canning factor and left to care for her without hope of returning home to Mexico.

In “The Next Marriage Expansion” I wrote about a man who married two bisexual women in the Netherlands. On commenter wrote in response to the article:

Are heterosexual marriages really above reproach?

Part of my response was:

The fact that many marriages are weak doesn???t mean we expand marriage but rather help people deal with the issues in the context of one man, one woman.

The point the commenter made recognizes that traditional marriages are often not above reproach. There are larger consequences when this happens, but certainly the devastation to the spouse and children shouldn’t be lost on anyone. A marriage of one man and one women is only that when both spouses maintain their mutual commitment to not bring anything or anyone that would harm that relationship.

On a cultural level for the nation, there is a growing cost to all families.

“There are probably some people who will be saying that we shouldn’t be paying for (treating) the undocumented,” said Sandoval. But from a public health perspective, immigration status is beside the point, he said.

There are limited resources. Every dollar requires a tax on someone and in the end families bear the burden for it all. The increase of immorality will lead to more situations like this. What will be the cost if the situation becomes as frequent as it is in Africa. Despite efforts the HIV/AIDS figures reached the highest levels with over 40.3 million people. Sadly, in one generation the rates could be dramatically reduced simply by moral behavior individually and in the context of one man, one woman marriage.

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