1. The article begins with some statistics about babies and how many babies turn out to be born from illegal immigrants. This opens then to the main point-- that there are studies on babies born as US citizens from illegal immigrants, and these studies put up argument against "Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, [who] said in July that he might offer an amendment to revoke birthright citizenship for the American-born children of illegal immigrants." Mr. Graham's ideals have been felt by some Americans, but most Americans do not want to have a new amendment that disrupts the 14th amendment. Statistics support this because "the Hispanic Center, found that 56 percent of those polled opposed changing the 14th Amendment, while 41 percent supported it." The Pew Research Center and the Hispanic Center have also stopped the argument that illegals come to America purposely to have baby by the fact that "More than 80 percent of mothers in the country illegally had been here for more than a year, the figures show, and more than half had been in the country for five years or more..." Even though "Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a research group that advocates reduced immigration" opposes Pew's research, he still thinks that the 14th amendment should not be affected. He says, “'The point is to shrink the illegal population and prevent new illegals from coming in,'...'before it’s appropriate to have the constitutional debate.'”
2. If you haven't noticed already, the amendment in question is the 14th amendment, and this brings the concept of the constitution into play. The part of the 14th amendment directly addressed is:
"1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Since the article discusses about babies born in the united states, this is the part of the 14th amendment that is being analyzed in the article.
3. this article directly relates to me because I will be using it for a mock trial coming up involving the Arizona immigrations laws and whether or not they directly violate the American spirit of immigrant History. This article will be a vital peace of information for the prosecuting side against Arizona's defense...
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