Sen. Russell Pearce faces an uphill battle in his quest to deny citizenship to children born in the United States, even if the parents are undocumented, since the 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the United States.
In the charged climate surrounding the immigration debate in the country, don't think for a second, however, that Pearce and others of his ilk aren't going to test the boundaries of the law in an effort to further squeeze undocumented residents.
Pearce questions why the child of two illegal residents can gain citizenship if the parents can not.
It is estimated by the Rand Corp. that American taxpayers spend more than $1.1 billion in health care costs for undocumented residents, the majority of whom come from Mexico and Central America. According to estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center, a good chunk of that sum comes from medical expenses of the estimated 300,000 births to illegal residents each year.
Pearce maintains that "blind spot[s]" in our law, such as granting automatic citizenship to the offspring of illegal residents, provides a powerful magnetfor couples to come to the United States to give birth in order to gain the rights of citizenship that they ironically can not enjoy.
Under Pearce's proposal, the state would withhold birth certificates from parents unless at least one parent could prove legal status.
It is an interesting but fatally flawed campaign by Pearce and his cohorts. And the reason why it is flawed is simple: It goes against current law.
I believe that there are some people who come to here to have children with the purpose of getting citizenship for the offspring. Their children are sometimes referred to as anchor babies,a term that immigration advocates find insulting and discriminatory.
Shame on parents who are here illegally and have a child here simply to gain the child citizenship. But two wrongs don't make a right. We can't allow their misdeeds to force this country into an even bigger misdeed like ignoring the Constitution.
Said more simply, states can not enact their own laws to sidestep the U.S. Constitution. End of story.
People who oppose illegal immigration want the strict enforcement of current immigration laws. That is all well and good, but you can't pick which laws to obey or you'll have anarchy.
So if Pearce is serious about denying citizenship to babies of illegal immigrants, he needs to start by amending the U.S. Constitution.
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Latinos did not cause the poor economy, war in the Middle East , bank failures, real estate slump. Whites in Arizona are looking for a scapegoat. Latinos have actually helped the US economy with the cheap source of labor they provided for decades !!
We (citizens of the U.S.) took (?stole) those border states by violence, at gunpoint, from Mexico. Maybe this would still be poor country if it had remained with Mexico, but the new immigrants can claim ancestral rights to travel over the land, as the migratory Sioux indians, Lakota indians, and others made regular, years-long migrations from the Dakotas down to the Sonora desert, and continued doing so long after the brand-new U.S.A. took over control of the land. They have as much right and reason to be here as other people have to go to Ireland, Italy, England or Germany because their ancestors lived there. This attempt to deny basic humanity to people because of artificial legal borders, all less than 200 years old, has gone from being silly to being sinful, the sins of hatred, greed, and dishonor to our forefathers, who wanted a country where all those fleeing for a better life would be welcomed and put to work.
By: If It Don't Make Dolla$$$... on 6/17/2010 4:06PM
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Everybody wants to "Villain-ize" Arizona these days for finally doing something about the circus of "Mexicans Gone Wild" at our borders! If the US is supposed to be a "Super Power", then why in the hell can't we CONTROL OUR OWN GATES??? Duh! Because the white man DOESN'T WANT TO!!! Plain & simple, it should be considered a "CONSPIRACY to DEFRAUD the US Govt" for anybody, not just Mexicans, to purposely come to America illegally! No other country would put up with this non-sense and they ain't even a "Super Power!" We can galavant clear AROUND THE WORLD and (try) to micro-manage a bunch of medeival savages with backpacks bombs because THEY GOT OIL, but we can't control the borders of California, Arizona, or Texas? BULL$H!T! In essence, this arrogant, anglo, US government has CHANGED THE LAWS and NEVER TOOK A VOTE when they are willing to let MILLIONS of wetbacks make a mockery of our nation's sovereignty! This government owes an extreme apology to the active Armed Forces because they are being used big time to keep the greedy white man rich. There is no footnote to any immigration laws that say if you're some poor Mexican you can: 1)Come to America anytime you want [illegally], 2)Breed like dawgs, and 3)Be given complete amnesty, if 4)YOU ARE WILLING TO WORK FOR A DISCOUNT!!! [And the white man can't figure out why the world hates our country!] Because our govt is nothing but a bunch of lying, crooked, evil, arrogant b@st@rds that think the world is their urinal to pi$$ on! Meanwhile, back at the ranch, our wealth is being $quandered try to make the Arabs/Muslims etc. bow down to our liking. So where do us black folk fit in this picture??? WE DON"T!!! They used to give jobs just because we are Black and they say we don't want to WORK. They used to give us scholarships because we are black and they say we don't want to LEARN. So now they say, "To hell with 'em, we got some NEW nigguhs!" Yeah, we may have a Brother in the White House or do we? Crime is still rampant in our communities. The airwaves are still polluted with ig'nant nigguhs talking sh!t about what dey got, who dey shot, etc. This vile propaganda garbage only serves to "ALIEN-ate US FROM MAINSTREAM SOCIETY!" Hence, we don't account for much except for job security at the morgue or the jail house. We will NEVER see "Real" change in this KKKuntry as O'bama put it, because the white man will NEVER let that happen. Back to Arizona - I applaud their efforts for trying to do what's right, even if it is a bit too late. If this KKKuntry wants to arbitrarily enforce laws that are ALREADY in the books, then I want to tell all cops to look the other way the next time they see me speeding because I got sh!t to do!!!
Gary, Here's it all in a nut shell, This what is scaring the hell out of you red necks and it is the fact that the latino voting bloc is becoming so strong that most like you want to try and stop the bleeding because if the illegals continue to flood into the states their population which had grown into the millions will threaten all of you in not to distant future. lol, ill be scared to if i was your azz because you are now fastly becoming a minority! Now chew on them taco's and see if it goes down the right way buy knowing your bull sh*t hope that you choke on it
IT'S ABOUT TIME THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOOK ROACHES THEY WILL TAKE OVER YOUR STATE AND DRAIN YOUR SOCIAL SERVICES NOT TO MENTION HOW THEY WILL SHUT DOWN YOUR HOSPITALS LOOK AT CALIFORNIA THEY ARE BROKE BECAUSE OF THEM...OH I FORGOT THEY THEY WILL WREAK YOUR CAR AND JUMP OUT AND RUN LEAVING HOLDING THE BAG... THE LIST GOES ON AND ON...
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By: amina on 6/17/2010 12:44PM
Latinos did not cause the poor economy, war in the Middle East , bank failures, real estate slump. Whites in Arizona are looking for a
scapegoat. Latinos have actually helped the US economy with the cheap source of labor they provided for decades !!
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By: SisterTeddy on 6/21/2010 9:08PM
We (citizens of the U.S.) took (?stole) those border states by violence, at gunpoint, from Mexico. Maybe this would still be poor country if it had remained with Mexico, but the new immigrants can claim ancestral rights to travel over the land, as the migratory Sioux indians, Lakota indians, and others made regular, years-long migrations from the Dakotas down to the Sonora desert, and continued doing so long after the brand-new U.S.A. took over control of the land. They have as much right and reason to be here as other people have to go to Ireland, Italy, England or Germany because their ancestors lived there. This attempt to deny basic humanity to people because of artificial legal borders, all less than 200 years old, has gone from being silly to being sinful, the sins of hatred, greed, and dishonor to our forefathers, who wanted a country where all those fleeing for a better life would be welcomed and put to work.
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By: If It Don't Make Dolla$$$... on 6/17/2010 4:06PM
Everybody wants to "Villain-ize" Arizona these days for finally doing something about the circus of "Mexicans Gone Wild" at our borders! If the US is supposed to be a "Super Power", then why in the hell can't we CONTROL OUR OWN GATES??? Duh! Because the white man DOESN'T WANT TO!!! Plain & simple, it should be considered a "CONSPIRACY to DEFRAUD the US Govt" for anybody, not just Mexicans, to purposely come to America illegally! No other country would put up with this non-sense and they ain't even a "Super Power!" We can galavant clear AROUND THE WORLD and (try) to micro-manage a bunch of medeival savages with backpacks bombs because THEY GOT OIL, but we can't control the borders of California, Arizona, or Texas? BULL$H!T! In essence, this arrogant, anglo, US government has CHANGED THE LAWS and NEVER TOOK A VOTE when they are willing to let MILLIONS of wetbacks make a mockery of our nation's sovereignty! This government owes an extreme apology to the active Armed Forces because they are being used big time to keep the greedy white man rich. There is no footnote to any immigration laws that say if you're some poor Mexican you can: 1)Come to America anytime you want [illegally], 2)Breed like dawgs, and 3)Be given complete amnesty, if 4)YOU ARE WILLING TO WORK FOR A DISCOUNT!!! [And the white man can't figure out why the world hates our country!] Because our govt is nothing but a bunch of lying, crooked, evil, arrogant b@st@rds that think the world is their urinal to pi$$ on! Meanwhile, back at the ranch, our wealth is being $quandered try to make the Arabs/Muslims etc. bow down to our liking. So where do us black folk fit in this picture??? WE DON"T!!! They used to give jobs just because we are Black and they say we don't want to WORK. They used to give us scholarships because we are black and they say we don't want to LEARN. So now they say, "To hell with 'em, we got some NEW nigguhs!" Yeah, we may have a Brother in the White House or do we? Crime is still rampant in our communities. The airwaves are still polluted with ig'nant nigguhs talking sh!t about what dey got, who dey shot, etc. This vile propaganda garbage only serves to "ALIEN-ate US FROM MAINSTREAM SOCIETY!" Hence, we don't account for much except for job security at the morgue or the jail house. We will NEVER see "Real" change in this KKKuntry as O'bama put it, because the white man will NEVER let that happen. Back to Arizona - I applaud their efforts for trying to do what's right, even if it is a bit too late. If this KKKuntry wants to arbitrarily enforce laws that are ALREADY in the books, then I want to tell all cops to look the other way the next time they see me speeding because I got sh!t to do!!!
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By: mannup on 6/17/2010 7:58PM
Gary, Here's it all in a nut shell, This what is scaring the hell out of you red necks and it is the fact that the latino voting bloc is becoming so strong that most like you want to try and stop the bleeding because if the illegals continue to flood into the states their population which had grown into the millions will threaten all of you in not to distant future. lol, ill be scared to if i was your azz because you are now fastly becoming a minority! Now chew on them taco's and see if it goes down the right way buy knowing your bull sh*t hope that you choke on it
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By: bjwest on 6/20/2010 10:19PM
IT'S ABOUT TIME THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOOK ROACHES THEY WILL TAKE OVER YOUR STATE AND DRAIN YOUR SOCIAL SERVICES NOT TO MENTION HOW THEY WILL SHUT DOWN YOUR HOSPITALS LOOK AT CALIFORNIA
THEY ARE BROKE BECAUSE OF THEM...OH I FORGOT
THEY THEY WILL WREAK YOUR CAR AND JUMP OUT AND
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