AP: Wash. GOP Issues Resolution on Immigration

[Eugene]

Wash. GOP Issues Resolution on Immigration


Monday May 29, 2006 6:46 PM

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - The Washington state Republican Party has adopted
a resolution calling for an end to the Constitution's guarantee of automatic
citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.

Delegates supporting that platform said their concerns included the cost
to public hospitals and the expense of welfare for the children of indigent
or deported illegal immigrants.

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The 14th Amendment says: "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."

State Democratic Party Chairman Dwight Pelz called the GOP resolution "a punitive
and inhumane response to the immigration issue America is confronting" and said
it would prove to be an "embarrassment" to Republican candidates.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5853210,00.html

[roguevalley]

1. Pretty amazing that you can't be a member of the country you were

born into. I don't blame kids. They're innocent. Any kid born here is an American and a countrymen. Fuck the politics.

[joemurphy]

2. Tom Tancredo's been pushing this. It'd be a legal

nightmare. Lots of children of illegal immigrant parents are adults now. Do we deport them too? What if one parent is illegal and another not? Do we let "half breeds" stay? How far back shall be go? Do we now need a Department of Genealogy to pass on the appropriate degrees of ethnic purity?

This is an incredibly stupid and bigoted idea. Thankfully, it has about a snowball's chance in hell of going anywhere.

[meow2u3]

3. I think Tom Tancredo should lose his citizenship

for being a racist asshole.