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Foes of Birthright Citizenship Take Fight to State Legislatures

WASHINGTON -- The battle over immigration moved to a fresh front today as conservative state lawmakers offered up a new strategy to strip U.S. citizenship from babies born to those in the country illegally. Calling themselves State Legislators for Legal Immigration, officials from five states offered up "model legislation...

Opinion: Citizen by Birth? Check the Constitution

(Aug. 13) -- The Pew Hispanic Center released a study about illegal immigrants and their children on Wednesday that is sure to have talking heads and pundits racing to the airwaves to spew their pet constitutional views about the so-called "birthright amendment" to the Constitution. But while there may be a lot of heat,...

Will Populist Backlash Stand Up in Court?

WASHINGTON (Aug. 4) -- Voters in Missouri show Congress what they think of a federal mandate to purchase health insurance. Lawmakers in Arizona take immigration enforcement into their own hands. And senators in Washington talk about amending the U.S. Constitution to block children born to those here illegally from...

Opinion: The Tea Party and an Inconvenient Constitution

(June 7) -- Tea party activists insist that the Constitution means what it says and hope to persuade their fellow citizens to embrace our national charter even when its plain language may seem inconvenient or illogical. So why are some of them so quick to embrace an effort to deny automatic citizenship to native-born...