Funny thing, I was just listening to Anthony Bourdain's new book and he was talking about how he's sitting at an Irish pub. The bartender's Irish, overstayed his student visa, and continually games the system. Knows who to talk to, how to duck out of the country and back in on a new work or student visa at any given point in time. There was also a Mexican kitchen guy, also illegal. He doesn't have any of the benefits that the Irish guy does. No one's going to write letters for him, and he never gets enough money to play the games that the Irish guy does. No one's looking for Irish guy, but the Mexican guy lives in fear and is a much greater target for crime and abuse.

Anecdotal, sure, but raised the point well at least.

Canadians and Europeans together only account for 6% of our illegal population.
http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/44.pdf

LOL. it's not big enough a problem.

Senator John Kyl wants to repeal the 14th Amendment

And Lindsay Graham also


Seriously dude??? Wow.

He doesn't want to repeal the whole thing, just the part giving citizenship birth. That'd be a pretty rational thing to do considering the state of things.

The result would be an underclass of people who were not citizens of the US or any other country. Those people would HAVE to work under the table. It's a stupid idea no matter ~*the state of things*~

Here is what I find 'funny' about this whole thing.

I posted earlier this year that the GOP tasked Micheal Steele with recruiting Hispanics to their cause...now with the flap in Arizona, they can kiss that vote goodbye...so with that, why not make a play on the 14th amendment?

Now Lamar Smith seems a bit more rational, introducing a bill denying brithright citizenship rather than wrecking havok on what's already in existance.

Just my 2 cents.

And just to be clear, click here

That bill violates the amendment. Precedent is very clear that not being "under the jurisdiction of the US" only excludes foreign diplomats and an invading army.

Passing such a law is a bad idea both symbolically - as it damages the image of what America is - and practically.

well...back to square one!

Mexico and most other countries will grant citizenship to children of citizens. If their citizens are here illegally and have anchor babies, why should it be our problem? Why further victimize innocent American taxpayers with people who shouldn't be here in the first place who will be receiving thousands in subsidies? How is that sane?

I fail to see why legal Hispanic citizens would be in favor of illegal immigration. It seems that illegal immigration would probably do more financial damage to them than any other subset of the population.

What I posted has nothing to do about Hispanics being in favor or not of illegal immigration. You know like I do, that the whole bill itself in Arizona did nothing more than targeted and profiled ALL Hispanics, as well as inspire xenophobia, so yes, a party that is trying to gain their support designing a bill to single out that same group of people is going to cause loss of support.

You're assuming the children are a "problem." They're citizens. 2nd and 3rd generations assimilate into American society. Even the non-citizen children, the ones targeted by the DREAM Act, are fully functioning productive members of society.

And furthermore how would revoking the children's citizenship actually relieve any burden? If they're here they're still going to get medical care for example.

Finally what happens when those non-citizen children have children?
First generation comes here, second generation is born here, third generation has NO citizenship (or nationality as Mexico defines it). None. We're a country of immigrants, some brought here by force, some by deceit, some for opportunity.

Immigrants are not why "the state of things" are bad. California is not going bankrupt because of illegal immigrants. Yet they get the blame for all of it because it's easier than fixing the problem.

Probably because they're not a hive mind and have different opinions like everyone else. Hell, as cheesy and dumb as it was, CNN had "Family Divided" featured this past weekend. Large, hispanic family that was split about 50/50 regarding their beliefs on immigration.

^^^ **GASP*** Hispanics are divided over this??? OOOhhhh NOOOOESSSS!


That's it in a nutshell. A country full of hypocrites.