&gt; If your immigration system is so malfunctioning that someone could spend pretty much their whole formative period - and not through any fault of their own - in your country then yes, you have just effectively gained another citizen.<p>Are you saying the US should have been better about enforcing immigration law when his parents illegally overstayed their visa? In other words, they should have been caught and deported well before their child spent his entire formative period in the US? Don&#x27;t you think at least <i>some</i> of your ire should be reserved for his parents, for putting him in this position?