Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Denying citizenship for illegal immigrants' children is a bad idea

Our founding fathers put this in the Constitution, it has been debated before, regarding gypsy and Chinese babies at one time and again more recently. It is still a Constitutional Amendment, fortunately it is not easy to change the Constitution. - - Donna Poisl

By Edward Schumacher-Matos

They are called "anchor babies" -- the children born in the United States of illegal immigrant parents -- and pressure is growing to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment so as to deny them automatic citizenship.

Ninety-one members of Congress have signed on as co-sponsors of a bill to do just that. It was submitted in the House last year by Georgia Republican Nathan Deal. Backers of Arizona's harsh anti-immigrant measure are drafting legislation that would withhold birth certificates from these babies. Similar measures are being proposed in other states.
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