Last month, Emily Ruiz, a four-year-old Long Islander, was denied admission to the United States even though she is U.S. citizen. Her parents are undocumented and Homeland Security agents refused to allow her into the country unless they surrendered themselves. A local attorney, David Sperling, flew to Guatemala to bring Emily back to her...
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Rand Paul and David Vitter are leading the charge in the Senate against the children of immigrants. The two tea party Senators have drafted legislation that would deny citizenship to children born in the United States to undocumented parents. Rand Paul, like his father Ron Paul, has long been antagonistic to the rights of...
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The attack on immigrants in state legislatures throughout the country this year was orchestrated by the State Legislators for Legal  Immigration (SLLI), a group of radical elected officials, many of whom are affiliated with the tea party. The SLLI has pushed bills stripping citizenship from the children of immigrants as well as bills cloning...
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Hours after a Tucson jury sentenced Minuteman leader Shawna Forde to death for two murders, the Arizona legislature turned up the fires of hatred once again when the Senate Appropriations Committee passed two new anti-immigrant bills. In doing so, it became, in the words of the Arizona Republic, “the first state legislative committee in...
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The bill to take away Arizona citizenship from the children of undocumented immigrants ran up against sharp opposition in the State Senate yesterday, leading its sponsor to put the measure on hold. Here are excepts from the report on the legislative debate from the Arizona Republic: The Senate versions of Arizona’s birthright-citizenship bills hit...
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Politicians from Suffolk to South Carolina have found it politically profitable to call the children of Latino parents “Anchor Babies”. Now you might think this phrase refers only to the children of the undocumented, but let me tell you, as someone who lives in the suburbs, the term is increasingly being used by the...
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Tea party favorite Rand Paul of Kentucky has teamed up with disgraced Senator David Vitter (La.) to propose a Senate Resolution that would “interpret” the 14th Amendment to take citizenship status away from the children of undocumented immigrants.Rand Paul’s father, Ron Paul, has long been connected to the extremist wing of the anti-immigrant movement....
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The long awaited tea party effort to prevent the children of the undocumented from being given citizenship at birth has begun. Republican Rep. John Kavanagh of Arizona introduced the bill today in the state legislature saying that birthright citizenship has to end because; “The result of that is they immediately acquire the right to...
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With all the derogatory talk about “anchor babies” and state legislation being introduced to deprive the children of immigrants of citizenship, you might want to know what the Constitution really says on the matter. The Council on Foreign Relations has published an interview with Margaret Stock, an expert on birthright citizenship, clarifying the basis...
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Steve King, the likely head of the House Immigration Subcommittee, set the tone for immigration reform in this session of Congress today by unveiling his bill to deprive the children of the undocumented of U.S. citizenship. From Politico: King’s measure would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, ending automatic citizenship for anyone born in...
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