If the Mexicans got angry enough, they could fix their own country.

Isn't that what Mrs. Obama wants...skinny kids? My two grandsons are waiting for November 7 when Mrs. Obama no longer rules the school lunchrooms from Washington.

Their question is who said she could do this???

They take the current horrible food personally and hold her responsible. These two boys go to Catholic school. The state run school menus are pervasive throughout the United States!

Obama spent his youth overseas as a Muslim.
Could that explain why he is so strange?

Sorry pal, I'm more concerned about the damage illegals have done to innocents on this side of the boarder with their irresponsible and criminal behavior.

Luis' fundamental poblem is tht his mother is an imprisoned drug addict and his fly-by-night father abandoned them. His fundamental advantage is that he has a responsible, hard-working grandfather and a willingness to work, plan, and be responsible for himself.

This would be true no matter which side of the border he was on.

I hope he does well and I think he will if he and his family pull together. It will all depend on the quality of his character, and not on the vagaries of his citizenship.

A sad story, certainly. The heartening part of Romney's answer to the debate question on immigration was his point that the laws need to be clear and enforced. Certainty brings the best outcomes. The squishy uncertainty of our immigration policy and 0bama's unwillingness to be consistent in upholding our immigration laws, leads to these outcomes.

That "squishy uncertainty" is a decades-long bi-partisan product. In the last debate, Romney talked about stapling a green card to a high school diploma, as though that makes it all right. Attempted amnesty is coming, no matter how much "reform" denial fills the air.

I'm sure any church or a number of conservative organizations would have been happy to have housed or sponsored Luis Martinez and others like him. I wonder if they asked for help? I would have done anything to give my kids better lives, even if it meant being separated from them.

Now they have turned to the church since they're back in America, but there was no need to have torn the boy away from his country in the first place. Of course, I am left to wonder how the family afforded a video games, fast food and Air Jordans lifestyle. My husband and I are both college graduates, and we never bought a lot of fast food, and never expensive designer athletic shoes for our kids.

Reverse migration? If we're going to rely on euphemisms how about voluntary repatriation?

No doubt the author and the LA Times see Dem voters fleeing back to their homeland.

It is TERRIBLE that their parents would put them in this situation of Breaking the laws of a foreign country.

This is nothing new, as Mexicans have been having children in the USA for over 100 years and have been bringing those children back to Mexico. Children have to go where their parents go.

If you had an immigration law that exempts Mexican illegal aliens from being deported because they had a child born here you might as well take down the border fences, and do away with all nationality and immigration requirements for people receiving public assistance and welfare.

Luis is not "an American teenager." He is not an American citizen. Period. End. Got it, LAT?

Furthermore, Americans need to be much more informed as to Mexico's laws on illegal aliens. They're... "rather different" from ours.

#1's got it. Any toilet country is one because its people haven't decided to take it away from the tyrants and make it right.

#8: He may have spent years here, but he's a Mexican citizen. America is not "his" country.

Illegal immigrants are guilty of cruelty to their children.

Did I misread the article? I thought it said Luis was born in Texas, and then raised in Utah. If he was born in Texas, he is an American citizen. I sure hate to see what these parents have done to their children, however it is the parents who have caused these problems. I hope he grows up to be a good person and an example to others. He sounds like he will be a conservative, seeing how he is not afraid of hard work, and has seen what happens to those like his mom. Good luck to Luis.

They are NOT real citizens, get a clue!

Explain to me why the kid didn't go to foster care as other kids whose parents are jailed do? They make it seem as though he had to go back to Mexico - he could have gone to foster care and avoided the entire bad experience.

His foster parents probably would have been illegals too, this is one of the great secrets of illegal alienhood - to sign up as a foster parent to get funds and avoid deportation, a lot of them are doing it.