Here's How Arizona May Target Children of Immigrants
In an interview with Time magazine, Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce confirmed his next legislative target: children. He and other Republicans plan to introduce legislation this fall to deny birth certificates to the children of undocumented immigrants.
Pearce authored Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB 1070, which requires police officers to demand proof of citizenship of anyone they stop at a traffic light. About his new proposal, Pearce has acknowledged that there’s a constitutional amendment which states a person born in the United States is a citizen, but he insisted that he and other Republicans will work around the constitutional issue. "We will write it right,” he told Time of the new bill.
How Pearce plans to get around the 14th amendment is the question. He might go with what other anti-immigrant commentators and attorneys have already suggested and focus on this line from the constitutional amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to theCOLORLINES - Here's How Arizona May Target Children of Immigrants
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