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Critics Invoke Bobby Jindal in Birthright Citizenship Controversy
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans have in recent weeks suggested that Congress should reconsider so-called “birthright citizenship” – that is, the policy of granting U.S. citizenship to anyone born in the country, even if their parents are illegal immigrants – provided under the 14th Amendment.
Critics of that position are now hitting back in part by invoking Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, who they say would not have been born a citizen under the proposed change — a claim his office is disputing.
On a conference call today, opponents of changing the policy said that while Americans are “justifiably frustrated” with current immigration policy, eliminating birthright citizenship “would punish the innocent children of undocumented immigrants, which flies in the face of American values,” according to Michele Waslin, Senior Policy Analyst at the Immigration Policy Center.
Elizabeth Wydra, Chief Counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center, said that repeal of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment would mark the first time “we the people amended our Constitution to make it less egalitarian.” She also said arguments that birthright citizenship could be changed without amending the Constitution (through a narrow reading of the 14th Amendment) are faulty.
Continue Reading at CBS News.
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