John Kyl fights 14th Amendment
Senator John Kyl from Arizona said Congress should deny citizenship to the illegal immigrants that were born in the United States, as the immigration issued widens and reaches the birthright point.
Senator Lindsey Graham considered last week introducing a Constitutional amendment to abolish a provision of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to anyone born within United States borders. Graham said that children born within United States borders but have illegal immigrant parents should not automatically receive citizenship. The 14th Amendment was issued in 1868and was meant to protect the former slaves and ensure that they were not denied citizenship by any state, but John Kyl says that it is not suitable for the today situation, since many children are born from two illegal immigrant parents, so there is no reason for them to receive citizenship. The Republicans are supporting this issue, and are searching ways to fight the Obama administration’s victory over the Arizona immigration law. Kyl declares himself to be a supporter of the law and says the governor and the legislative leaders have talked about interpreting the law and avoid the concerns Judge Bolton expressed earlier.
Kyl declares that he is supporting the law because he finds it frustrating that illegal immigrants take the jobs of the real Americans, and that United States is wasting a lot of money from its budget to give them access to education, medical care and welfare benefits. Another issue that he was referring to is crime associated with illegal immigrants, and which is not necessarily committed by illegal immigrants, but on them and more than 15 percent of the people who are crossing the border illegally each year prove to be criminals of some sort. He gives the example of Phoenix which is an area source of kidnapping and is called the kidnapping capital of the United States because the illegal immigrants who are brought to Phoenix for distribution throughout the country are held in drop houses and are horribly treated. Kyl does not believe the law to be discriminatory and says that anyone living in Arizona appreciates it mostly because they have a south border to Mexico. Thomas Saenz, the president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, says that this law is highly discriminatory against Latinos and others who may appear to be foreign because it requires police officers to make racial profiling and stereotyping. He also disagrees with the changing of the 14th Amendment and says that this is a 150 years leap back on constitutional history and tradition and a denial of the fact that United States has always been a country of immigrants
