The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was one of the rulings enacted after the US Civil War for the protection of the freed slaves at the end of the war. Section 1. of that amendment reads: "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."
There is a heated debate going on in Congress about amending this amendment to EXCLUDE or modifiy the first sentence of Section 1 because illegal immigrants are using it to get a toe hold on being in America. Senator Lindsey Graham (R SC) is for the change but he's facing a lot of opposition.
What is your opinion? How would you change the wording so that it would stop illegal immigrants from having babies here just so they can come back years later with those children as ILLEGAL immigrants? Do you even think it is necessary? The current state of that clause allows foreigners to get 90 day visas have their child on American soil then go home and later come back ILLEGALLY with that child and claim asylum because the CHILD is an American. (Unfortunately it is the people who live south of the United States who do this most often but not EXCLUSIVELY, there are also Chinese and Middle Eastern people doing it as well.)
Please forward your responses to: http://lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.LandingPage
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