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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 ...
For Illegal Immigrants, the End of Tolerance?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW 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 ...
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 ...
Will Populist Backlash Stand Up in Court?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 4) -- Voters in Missouri show Congress what they think of a federal mandate to purchase health insurance. Lawmakers in Arizona take immigration enforcement into their own hands. And senators in Washington talk about amending the U.S. Constitution to block children born to those here illegally from automatic citizenship. "We're looking at the greatest showdown on states' rights that we've had in a couple of generations," said Richard Reuben, a University of Missouri law professor. "This is a historic time." John Moore, Getty Images Arizona conservatives sing the national ...
Opinion: The Tea Party and an Inconvenient Constitution
By Michael Medved - AOL News(June 7) -- Tea party activists insist that the Constitution means what it says and hope to persuade their fellow citizens to embrace our national charter even when its plain language may seem inconvenient or illogical. So why are some of them so quick to embrace an effort to deny automatic citizenship to native-born children of those who entered the country illegally? Within a week of his landslide primary victory, tea party favorite Rand Paul told a reporter for English-language Russian TV that "we're the only country I know that allows people to come in illegally, have a baby, and then ...
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