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Incredible - that would make me an illegal immigrant because my parents had me while they were here on student visas and we wouldn't have been able to build the lives we had for the past 40+ years! What a compassionate and humane system, how refreshing.

The level of naked ethnosupremacism embedded in European ideals and their constant barking at how the US is actually the most racist country is so very funny to me. If you rebuild the ship of fools plank by plank will it still dash itself against the reef?

by BeetleB3 hours ago|

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Not taking a stand on either side, but your parent is correct. This isn't a European thing - but true in most countries.

And yes, things like race are a primary reason (for good or bad).

And yes, as my Spanish friend keeps pointing out: While the US has a large homicide rate, they can't beat the Europeans when it comes to pogroms, mass killings, etc every so many decades. Europe will be, well, Europe.

by knorker2 hours ago|

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It wasn't "legal status". It was "subject to laws of the country" (i.e, excluding diplomats).

If the very constitution of the country classifies tourists as "not subject to the law of the US", that's some The Purge level popcorn. All visitors and illegal aliens would have had diplomatic immunity.

The US can amend the constitution. It has not. SCOTUS has no legal right to do it unilaterally.