OPINION:
I am a retired Department of Justice lawyer, a former judge’s law clerk and a with-honors law-school graduate. I am not your ordinary crackpot. I want to call attention to the last paragraph in Article III of our Constitution. It bans “corruption of blood,” prohibiting the punishment of children in case their parents are convicted of treason.
I have a hard time imagining the drafters of our Constitution cheering the deportation of children who were brought here at a very young age as part of their parents’ illegal entry. These children were raised here, in our culture and in our schools. Deporting them would mean sending them from the country that they know to a foreign land that they do not know. That is, at a minimum, child abuse. It is too close to “corruption of blood” for comfort. It is my understanding that there were no Klingons at the Constitutional Convention.
CARL STRASS
Virginia Beach, Va.
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