My wife and I had to jump through hoops and do paperwork for her to even come on base when we were stationed in Korea to go to the grocery store after we got married (took over 5 months) and then go through all of the hoops to immigrate - and this is as a serviceman's wife with a son who is a US citizen (foreign born obviously) - there's no reason that a freeloader should be able to essentially "get away" with jumping the border, and then go unpunished for doing so.