Posted on 08/08/2010 7:54:03 AM PDT by george76
As Republican members of Congress press for changes to the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, preventing automatic citizenship for babies born to illegal immigrants, opponents insist the debate is not really about babies.
Instead, they say it is about politics and votes – not fixing the immigration system.
Still, the debate could resonate in Texas, where not only 1.5 million illegal immigrants are estimated to reside but at least 60,000 babies are added to their households annually.
Parkland Memorial Hospital delivers more of those babies than any other hospital in the state. Last year at Parkland, 11,071 babies were born to women who were noncitizens, about 74 percent of total deliveries. Most of these women are believed to be in the country illegally.
when the 14th Amendment was written, and the author was quoted as saying that it did not apply to foreigners
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That's one every 36 minutes, 24/7.
Here is something that should be of great interest for you to pass around.
Back during The Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work.
Harry Truman deported over two million Illegal’s after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans.
And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 4 million Mexican nationals! The program was called ‘Operation Wetback’ so that American WWII and Korean veterans had a better chance at jobs. It took 2 Years, but they deported them!
Now, if they could deport the illegals back then, they can sure do it today!!
If you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for yourself.
Thousands May Lose Rental Vouchers
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/nyregion/07voucher.html?_r=3
This needs stopped but this and illegal immigration issues have been ongoing for a long time.
I am sick and tired of them only becoming important around elections and then NOTHING EVER GETS DONE.
And I'll bet that every single one of them entered the hospital through the emergency room and that not one of them paid a single dime to the hospital for the services rendered.
“What happens when the illegals who have the babies get amnesty?”
Well, then not only will their babies be citizens, but they can legally sponsor all their relatives to come over as well.
Amnesty has the potential of emptying Mexico!
They’ll probably open it in the basement.
Do any of the Federalist Papers discuss the 14th?
I think this was devised for the slaves.
It was.
But go to Section 5.
It gives CONGRESS the authority to manage it.
We do not need to change the 14th Amendment. They gave Congress the power.
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