So Arizona is being stupid and controversial, what else is new? Seriously, these guys have no respect for the rights of human beings. What did the children do to deserve the Arizona governor's unbridled fury? Was his car washed poorly by some Mexican children or something? Is that why he's sworn vengeance upon the entire country?
The children have NO choice on where they're born. If they're born in your state you don't have to sit them in the lap or luxury, but to deny them a home is just wrong.
The governor is a woman.
And if you were a foreign national living in pretty much any country in the world except the United States, your children would not become citizens of that country automatically. They would have the same nationality as their parents. Since "illegal immigrants" are not actually immigrants, but foreign nationals living illegally in a country, this applies to them as well.
So basically what this bill would do when combined with the immigration bill is this:
If you are an illegal immigrant nothing will happen to you until you get stopped by police for some other crime. Then you might get deported. What will happen to you is that you will be turned overto the federal authorities and they will decide what to do with you. Victims and witnesses of crimes are not subject to deportation under this law.
If you have kids, right now they are given American citizenship. This makes deportation hard, because who wants to break up families. And its not exactly legal to deport your own citizens.
Under the proposed bill, Arizona would not issue birth certificates to children of illigal immigrants. Whether they would actually be declined american citizenship is a bit of a gray area. They could move to another state like say California and be given a postdated birth certificate. This happens occasionally for people who were born in the middle of nowhere away from a hospital. Or they could go back to Mexico and do the same thing there.
Really what this bill does is just give more incentive for illegal immigrants to leave Arizona.
People wouldn't become illegal immigrants if it wasn't so damn hard to get in legally.
Right. Which is why immigration reform is needed. But while reforms are being worked on we don't need to stop enforcing the law. If anything stories like this:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/16/closes-park-land-mexico-border-americans/
show that the borders need to get locked down. Because its not just people looking to find work that come across the border.
Of course, do nothing, just go straight to enforcement and hope it works enough before doing something. Can't have it both ways.
Cause I'm sure the federal gov't has done much to move the cogs of reform.
Doing nothing is actually the opposite of what I said. Reform and enforce. You need to do both. More specifically you need to crack down on the illegal immigrants and those who employ them while making legal immigration a shorter, less expensive process. But you still need to have some way to weed out unwanted immigrants like murderers, rapists, terrorism suspects, etc.
Just because I think recreational drug laws are not done well doesn't mean I would support not arresting dealers until reform in the laws happens. Its the same thing.
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