what do you say to that? that s not the way it actually works. if you send a birth certificate and a picture to the u.s. state department and you re a u.s. diplomat, the child of a diplomat and you were born here, and you send a birth certificate and a picture, they ll give you a passport. heather: okay, so there are a bunch of bureaucrats who aren t checking, and so a few of these people are getting through, and they are enjoying the status of both. well, it s a few thousand people every year. so the cumulative effect can be quite large. and it isn t so much that they re not checking, it s there s no even procedure to do that. states who register births have no mechanism for distinguishing between the children of diplomats and not. the social security administration doesn t issue special social security numbers to the children born to diplomats. heather: all right. so your point is somebody s got to get this thing figured out whether it is congress who decides to with right. c