One Reporter's Opinion: America – Third World in the Making?

One Reporter's Opinion: America – Third World in the Making?

George Putnam
Friday, March 7, 2003

It is this reporter's opinion that the founding fathers, in their wisdom and in framing Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to our Constitution, could not possibly have anticipated its dire results. The words are:

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.

The results of this passage are absolutely catastrophic!

Hundreds of thousands of pregnant, illegal alien women are now waiting until the last moment at weigh stations near our borders ... then rushing across to deliver an instantaneous little American citizen.

Most of these women are in county hospitals, and because they have no support, all of this is at our expense. They come here to give birth and suddenly they're on some form of welfare. Next, the extended family arrives and additional births are counted.

Here are some shocking statistics:

At L.A. County Hospital 66 percent of babies are born to illegals.
In one year in Imperial County, Calif. (on the Mexican border), of 706 babies born, 89.2 percent were Hispanic.
In Los Angeles County 63.5 percent were Hispanic.
More than two-thirds of Hispanic babies were born in Southern California.
From July to September 2001, there were 138,892 births in California; 69,672 (50.2 percent) were Hispanic.

I maintain there is no legal basis for granting citizenship to children of illegals. We are a humanitarian, generous people, but maturity and common sense begin at home.

Certainly the 14th Amendment was not intended to confer citizenship status on those born here out of an illegal presence. When foreigners enter our country illegally, they demonstrate that they have no intention of obeying the laws of our government; they have refused to submit to its administration or the sovereignty of our nation.

They do not consent with others to put themselves under an obligation to everyone of our society, but rather they are demanding that society has an obligation to them. This is a complete reversal of common sense.

This procedure forgets the fact that a person here not legally is not legally here.

Let's face it: In the eyes of the law, they have no LEGAL presence. Even though they are physically here, they are not LEGALLY here. Even though they physically give birth here, they do not LEGALLY give birth here. Since no LEGAL birth can occur, there can be no LEGAL status conferred upon the child born of this event.

More than 30 million immigrants have settled in the United States since 1970.

Our cities, schools, health care systems, labor markets and environment are crying for help. Current immigration levels are so high that immigration officials are unable to thoroughly screen immigrants before allowing them into the country.

Twenty-five percent of those in our federal prisons are illegal immigrants.

It's time to completely overhaul our immigration policy. It's time to put an absolute end to the massive illegal immigration invasion and regain control of our porous borders ... or are we going to become another Third World?

There is no argument that illegal immigrants are entitled to due process under the 14th Amendment when it comes to deportation hearings or criminal proceedings. But to expand that to mean these children are deserving of citizenship is absolute folly. In the words of my good friend Bruce Crawford, "One cannot get there from here."

Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has introduced the HR-946 bill to reduce LEGAL immigration from a million a year to approximately 300,000 a year. The bill would enact a five-year moratorium on many categories of immigration and would eliminate the visa waiver program.

(Go to http://www.americanpatrol.com/CONGRESS/TANCREDO/
HR946MoratoriumBill030301.html)

Send a PriorityGram to Rep. Tom Tancredo to let him know how you feel about this problem. Click here and go to House of Representatives, CO-Thomas G. Tancredo (R).

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