http://news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-blocks-ala-illegal-immigration-law-190442307.html
And it seems people haven't learned from when Arizona tried to do the same thing.
Basic principles of federalism, some powers for the states, others for the federal government. Immigration is for the federal government. If you are a state and you keep trying to make laws about it, then the bench will keep tossing them out as unconstitutional on separation of powers groups/federalism, and because you states still haven't learned a thing.... [sigh]
It seems to me (disregarding that it's unconstitutional) that giving out special "non-citizen" birth certificates is the beginning of the road to an apartheid type system.
e.g. what happens when these US-born "non-citizens" have their own children? Do they get "non-citizen" birth certificates too, ad infinitum to the end of time?
There will always be individuals who cannot be deported, as they have no other nation which accepts them as citizens, so the special laws being looked at will inevitably lead to an us/them situation with two tiers (citizens and 'residents').
Once you've got that in place, it would be a small jump to stripping felons of their citizenship, so you'd have a growing rate of the non-citizen residents, felons already lose the vote in many states, so this would not be a big jump. The new "resident" class would have no voting rights etc.
I'm not exaggerating at all when I say a law like that is the first step towards being able to implement a form of fascism where only a minority are true "citizens" with constitutional protections.