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The bill would exclude the children of immigrants from citizenship unless the parents were "lawfully" domiciled in Arizona.
Federal law now grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States.
If the state legislature passes the bill, it is nearly certain to run headlong into legal conflicts with the U.S. Constitution, according to legal analysts.
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I support the law, but I feel that it should be done lawfully. States do not have the right to define US citizenship. I don't even feel that it would need a constitutional amendment, as Amendment 14 already has the clause "subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
Our legislators in this state are really starting to get on my damn nerves. Passing laws that won't hold up in a court of law is stupid and expensive. Arizona politicians have always been fairly stupid to begin with, but it's starting to rise to a truly embarrassing level.
Seriously, this is just political posturing. As an Arizonan, I would rather our lawmakers focused on areas where they do have jurisdiction.
Maybe it's a precursor to set the ground for another SCOTUS hearing to overturn Plyler v Doe, the 1982 decision that made it mandatory to educate illegal kids in public schools.
I wonder: if a Medicaid waiver is granted for ariz, then could ariz set the rules on who could get all of the freebies? Why can't they make it to where only verified LEGAL adults could apply on behalf of a child? That would cut out all of the freebies that are given to the anchor kids who merely have to be born here regardless of parents' status.
Our legislators in this state are really starting to get on my damn nerves. Passing laws that won't hold up in a court of law is stupid and expensive. Arizona politicians have always been fairly stupid to begin with, but it's starting to rise to a truly embarrassing level.
Maybe out-of-staters are funding it? I know that many of the Prop 8 donations came from out-of-staters.
Our legislators in this state are really starting to get on my damn nerves. Passing laws that won't hold up in a court of law is stupid and expensive. Arizona politicians have always been fairly stupid to begin with, but it's starting to rise to a truly embarrassing level.
Maybe out-of-staters are funding it? I know that many of the Prop 8 donations came from out-of-staters.
Could be. But trust me, we've got plenty of our own home grown idiots in this state. It seems like every decade we do something stupid that embarrasses the state. I understand what these fools are trying to do, but it's going to fail and fail miserably.
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