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The Immigration Impasse
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The Right’s division on immigration cuts across the usual lines: There are social conservatives, hawks, and economic conservatives in each camp. The division goes deep: It reflects differences about not only what policies the government should adopt but the moral convictions that should underlie them and the political strategies that should accompany them. One thing all of these camps share, however, is a lack of political realism.
Truth and Consequences: The impact of repealing "Birthright Citizenship"
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Welcoming Remarks:
- Caroline Fredrickson, Executive Director, American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
The panel will feature:
- Moderator, Angela Maria Kelley, VP for Immigration Policy and Advocacy, Center for American Progress
- Sam Fulwood III, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
- Wade Henderson, President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
- Priscilla Huang, Associate Policy Director, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
- Margaret Stock, Adjunct Instructor, University of Alaska Anchorage
Boneheaded Birthright Citizenship Fight
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Jen is right on both the substance and politics of a GOP move to revoke birthright citizenship from children born to illegal aliens. As I’ve written here and here , the 14th Amendment was carefully drawn and debated to exclude only two categories of persons: the children of diplomats and children born on Indian reservations that were deemed sovereign territories at the time.
Answering the Critics of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
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Argument #1: "Immigration reform will harm taxpayers." Response: Legalizing both the flow of workers and the workers already here will help taxpayers by raising the newly legalized workers' productivity, their earnings, and the likelihood that they will pay taxes in the formal economy.
Eastman is wrong: the Constitution does guarantee birthright citizenship
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John Eastman has taken me to task for what he calls my misreading of the language and history of the 14th Amendment in a recent op-ed I wrote for The Wall Street Journal. We’ve known each other for decades, and I consider Eastman a friend, but he’s simply wrong in thinking the children born to illegal immigrants in the United States are not entitled to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
Born in the USA?: The historical and constitutional underpinnings of Birthright Citizenship
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On March 31, 2011, the American Constitution Society and the Center for American Progress brought together leading thinkers to discuss current challenges to birthright citizenship and provide historical perspective to the debate about what the 14th Amendment guarantees.
Saving the Elderly Safety Net
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Here's a thought: If Medicare pays your medical bills, thank an immigrant for making it possible. For all the loose talk about how immigrants burden our social welfare system, it turns out that when it comes to Medicare, immigrants contribute far more to the system than they take out.
A new study by Harvard Medical School shows that between 2002 and 2009, immigrants (including those in the country illegally) contributed $115 billion more to the Medicare system than they received in benefits, while the American-born received $28 billion more than they contributed. If not for immigrants, Medicare would be in bigger trouble than it already is. And the same is true for Social Security, to which immigrants contribute a surplus of about $12 billion a year.
The Constitutionality of Arizona SB 1070 and other state immigration laws
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The Issue Brief also illuminates the question of to what extent SB 1070 and similar state laws permit racial profiling, and concludes that such profiling “is not merely incipient in the statute (and proposed copycats in Florida, Michigan, Rhode Island and South Carolina), it is expressly authorized.”
Click Here to Download the Issue Brief.
Conservatives and Citizenship
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Jeb Bush's recent backtracking on the question of whether we should grant legal residency but withhold citizenship to the 11 million illegal immigrants living in the country today is far less Draconian than some advocates for legalization are claiming. It is an idea that has been floated by others who support legalization, including scholar Peter Skerry of Boston College.
