That's how it is in the rest of the world.
Friend of mine actually had that problem - he was working in the US on a six month secondment, his pregnant wife came out to visit and wound up going into labor early (just under 8 months along, she was). Mike had to physically restrain the hospital registrar from registering their daughter as a US citizen. 
Which is wrong of course. The 14th Amendment has been misconstrued.
By/ Byron Pitts/ CBS/ April 7, 2008, 6:34 PM
Illegal Immigrant Births - At Your Expense
It was 5 a.m. and CBS News national correspondent Byron Pitts is with a woman who is nine months pregnant. She's rushed to a south Texas hospital to undergo a C-section - a $4,700 medical procedure that won't cost her a dime. She qualifies for emergency Medicaid.
She gave birth to a healthy, 8 1/2 pound baby boy - born in America. His Mexican mother gave him an American name: Eliot.
Eliot is one of an estimated 300,000 children of illegal immigrants born in the United States every year, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. They're given instant citizenship because they are born on U.S. soil, which makes it easier for their parents to become U.S. citizens.
That's because those babies can eventually sponsor their parents - when they turn 21 years old.
As for Eliot's mother, no longer as fearful of deportation, she told CBS News her name, Fabiola, and her story.
"So your son is an American citizen. What does that mean to you?" Pitts asked.
"I am very glad that he was born. That's why I came here - so my children, my husband and I could have a better life," she said through a translator.
Back in December, when she was six months pregnant, Fabiola, her husband and their two daughters - ages 4 and 11 - crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the U.S.
Once on the other side of the river they walked for two hours in search of a better life and free medical care for their unborn child.
-End excerpt click link for the rest of the story
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-immigrant-births-at-your-expense/Not Hard to Read 14th Amendment As Not Requiring Birthright Citizenship -- and Nothing Odd About Supporting Such a Reading
Read more at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/422714/not-hard-read-14th-amendment-not-requiring-birthright-citizenship-and-nothing-odd
