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Legalizing Mothers. One in 10 children born in the US is born to illegal
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One in 10 children born in the US is born to illegal immigrants every year (Doyle, 2003, ¶18). According to the 14th Amendment citizenship is a birthright obtained regardless of where the parents were born (Bulkeley, 2005, ¶5). In the state of Arkansas there has been a dramatic increase, by 10 fold, of children born to immigrants legal or illegal (Camarota, 2005, ¶58). The parents of US citizens however are not granted the same right as citizens even though their children are. When the pilgrims first came to the US they declared themselves citizens, essentially America was founded on "illegal immigration". Parents today are still coming to America in search of the same freedoms as the pilgrims did yet, they are being told to return home. The statistics of illegal immigration are overwhelming, many famous people are the result of illegal immigration but without proper legislation immigration issues can not be solved. Is this what our founding fathers envisioned long ago?
Statistics
In a study by the Center for Immigration, 7% of Utah's births in 2002 were to illegal mothers (Bulkeley, 2005, ¶3); it concluded that nearly 10% of children born in the US are born to illegal immigrant mothers (Bulkeley, 2005, ¶8). In California 46% of the children born in 2002 were born to foreign born mothers totaling 116,862 children (Doyle, 2003, ¶18). Mexico accounted for 45% of all immigrant births in 2002 (Camarota, 2005, ¶9). This is because there are more than 10 million Mexican born people living in the US legal or otherwise (Camarota, 2005, ¶46). In 2002 there were approximately 383,000 children born to illegal immigrants (Doyle, 2003, ¶6), of these children 5-10% had illegal mothers but legal fathers (Camarota, 2005, ¶54). US President George Bush approved the spending of billions of dollars to help control border patrol yet, it is estimated that it cost taxpayers $1.7 billion in 2002 to pay for the births to uninsured illegal alien...
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