Wash. GOP Issues Resolution on Immigration

Wash. GOP Issues Resolution on Immigration

YAKIMA, Wash. - The Washington state Republican Party has adopted a resolution calling for an end to the Constitution's guarantee of automatic citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.

Delegates supporting that platform said their concerns included the cost to public hospitals and the expense of welfare for the children of indigent or deported illegal immigrants.

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The 14th Amendment says: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

State Democratic Party Chairman Dwight Pelz called the GOP resolution "a punitive and inhumane response to the immigration issue America is confronting" and said it would prove to be an "embarrassment" to Republican candidates.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060529/ap_on_re_us/immigration_washington_gop_1

keeps getting in the way of our plans.
Put them on the cattle cars with their parents and off to the camps with them!
It's the American way.
And don't you DARE suggest I'm a bigot just because the Aryan Nations, Michelle Malkin and David Duke agree with me.
That's just a coincidence. And besides I LOVE FREEDOM.
Just not for you.

If you like open borders, please send a check for $300 to John Peter Smith Hospital in Tarrant County Texas. We who support the county hospital would appreciate the relief.

I searched a little bit. Couldn't find Tarrant County numbers, but I did find a piece from the Center for Immigration Studies--no friends of illegal immigration--on immigrant births. For the state of Texas as a whole, CIS showed 259,000 births in 2002, of which 113,000 were the children of immigrants.

That tells me that immigrants accounted for slightly more than one-third of all Texas births that year. And that's ALL immigrants, legal or illegal.

Here's the link: http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/back8054.html

Now, I see that you wrote specifically about undocumented parents at the county hospital. I'm assuming that's where poor, uninsured people go. I would suggest that it is not immigration status but financial status that makes people go to the county hospital.

Also, a serious question: How does the hospital know the immigration status of parents?

In fiscal year 2005, there were approximately 6,000 births and according to Mr. Triumph that would mean that around 4,500 were births to undocumented immigrants. I find that incredulous. I am awaiting a link as well.

My info comes from here. http://www.jpshealthnet.org/WebDeskUploads/jps_full_fwst_quality_dec_v7.pdf

That number is incredibly high. Where do you get your info?

And although the FWST is a Republican-leaning paper, the editorial board supports open borders.

Hey, wake up open-borders Bush-apologists! There is a real problem with unlimited immigration.