Having failed to address immigration reform since Jimmy Carter was in office, several members of Congress recently suggested a debate over the 14th Amendment -- which grants citizenship to U.S. born citizens.
The right of citizenship for a U.S. born child has been one of the few concrete pillars of immigration policy in this country. Our Riverside immigration attorneys represent clients in Southern California who are facing all types of immigration issues. Having utterly failed when it comes to compassionate immigration reform for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants, some Republican lawmakers are suggesting the revocation of citizenship for the estimated 4 million U.S.-born children of these immigrants.
The Washington Post reports it is politics at its very, very worst: Republicans could use it as a way to diminish the power of the Hispanic vote, which is growing by the year in this country and votes heavily Democratic in response to the draconian immigration stance largely adopted by the GOP.
"They are endeavoring to solve what is probably the most crippling long-term political dilemma: the racial diversification of the electorate," the Post wrote. "Not to put too fine a point on it, they are trying to preserve their political prospects as the white folks' part in an increasingly multicolored land."
The white Christians, upon whom the party heavily relies, will shrink to just 35 percent of the population by 2040. While Latinos are projected to increase from 47 million to 133 million by 2050.
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