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Published: 08/14/10

For Illegal Immigrants, the End of Tolerance?

By  Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics Daily
For Illegal Immigrants, the End of Tolerance?

NEW YORK – Amid the intense national debate over immigration, news came late in the week that 1 in 12 children born in the United States in 2008 were offspring of illegal immigrants, an estimate that could add fodder in the current clamor over birthright citizenship. The figures, published by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group in Washington, could embolden anti-illegal-immigration conservatives in Washington and elsewhere who are calling for changes in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment to deprive children of illegal immigrants born in the United States the ...

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