New amendment would help with immigration reform
Letter date:
Monday, March 9, 2015
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Statesman Journal
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In the discussions about immigration, I see no mention of Section 1 of Amendment XIV to the U.S. Constitution, which provides that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen. Consequently, we have the situation of legal children of illegal parents.
This amendment was passed three years after the one to free the slaves and had a different intent.
A new amendment should provide that to be a natural-born citizen, a child should have at least one parent who is a citizen of the U.S.
Why is this not being included in any immigration reform?
