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Did Arizona Immigration Policies Deprive State of Federal Dollars?

Arizona came out a winner last week when the Census Bureau released 2010 population figures. Or did it? The Grand Canyon State will gain a House seat to bring its total to nine when Congress is reapportioned before the 2012 election. But in the competition for billions in federal funding for Medicaid, education,...

Janet Napolitano: Leave 14th Amendment Alone!

(Aug. 13) -- The push to revise the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- which guarantees American citizenship to any child born within our country's borders -- is not sitting well with Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano. "I have to tell you I have [been] surprised, to say the least, that the discussions we...

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,...

Children of Unauthorized Immigrants: By the Numbers

(Aug. 11) -- In a new report sure to rock the cradle in the debate over whether to tinker with the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 8 percent of all babies born in the United States in 2008 had "unauthorized immigrant parents" -- meaning that their parents were in the country...

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