Opinion: Whoa, Canada

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I don’t know whom the following story would discomfit more: Lou Dobbs or Michael Moore. But the BBC is reporting that a Canadian woman crossed the border into Montana to give birth to quadruplets.

The four Jepp girls — Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia (named for my favorite Canadian-born journalist?) — came into the world stateside ‘because there was no space available at Canadian neonatal intensive care units,’ according to the Beeb. Maybe the parents should have tried a Cuban hospital.

These four ‘border babies’ presumably are entitled to claim U.S. citizenship and the jobs that rightly belong to real Americans. Maybe they’ll end up in a duplex in Twinsburg. At least the Dionne quintuplets, out of respect for U.S. sovereignty, were born in Canada.