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Most Americans Favor Citizenship for U.S.-Born Children of Illegal Immigrants
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyWhile Americans still favor strong measures to crack down on illegal immigration, they oppose proposals to change the Constitution so that children born here to illegal immigrants would not automatically become citizens, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted Feb. 2-7. Proposals to deny citizenship to what immigration hardliners call "anchor babies" born in the U.S. to illegal immigrant parents are unpopular with the public. Fifty-seven percent oppose changing the Constitution's 14th amendment that grants automatic citizenship to anyone born on American soil. Thirty-nine percent ...
Foes of Birthright Citizenship Take Fight to State Legislatures
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The battle over immigration moved to a fresh front today as conservative state lawmakers offered up a new strategy to strip U.S. citizenship from babies born to those in the country illegally. Calling themselves State Legislators for Legal Immigration, officials from five states offered up "model legislation to correct the monumental misapplication of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution." Speaking at a packed news conference at the National Press Club that was disrupted several times by protesters, Republican legislators from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Oklahoma, South ...
Tea Party, Conservatives Revere Constitution (Except When They Don't)
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyThe Constitution has been a frequent rallying cry at Republican and Tea Party events this summer. If you ask Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Rand Paul and other conservative politicians, defending that sacred document written by the founders and amended by the people of the United States of America, is No. 1 on their national agenda. Except when it isn't. For instance, there's wiggle room on that 14th Amendment -- the one adopted after the Civil War to guarantee citizenship to blacks and anyone born on U.S. soil. (it also says the Bill of Rights must be upheld by state and local governments, ...
Janet Napolitano: Leave 14th Amendment Alone!
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- The push to revise the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- which guarantees American citizenship to any child born within our country's borders -- is not sitting well with Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano. "I have to tell you I have [been] surprised, to say the least, that the discussions we have had about amending the U.S. Constitution [have happened] before we can even get to the table about amending the statues that carry out immigration policy," Napolitano said at a press briefing today. "Any talk of amending the Constitution is just wrong." As Napolitano ...
Opinion: Citizen by Birth? Check the Constitution
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- The Pew Hispanic Center released a study about illegal immigrants and their children on Wednesday that is sure to have talking heads and pundits racing to the airwaves to spew their pet constitutional views about the so-called "birthright amendment" to the Constitution. But while there may be a lot of heat, there probably won't be much light on the issue. The Pew study found that 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the U.S. in 2008 were children of illegal immigrants, and that of the 5.1 million children of undocumented immigrants, 4 million were born inside the U.S. The ...
What Reagan Had and Obama Needs: Optimistic Slogans
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyAnyone writing about abortion knows how hard it is to find the right label to identify each side's position. Those who support reproductive rights call themselves pro-choice, but in a recent post, when I identified pro-life anti-abortion advocates as anti-choice, a colleague told me she found the term offensive. I can see her point. Pro-choicers don't like to be called anti-life, which would be the flip side of the phrase I had used as a matter of convenience, as opposed to ideology. So I changed my labeling system, but not everyone got the memo, as they say. A popular bumper sticker says, ...
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