September 16, 2007
BY DAVID WHITNEY
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
WASHINGTON -- Each year, an estimated 400,000 babies are born in the United States to mothers who are illegal immigrants.
Although Congress has never passed a law saying so, no president has ever ordered it, and no court has ever ruled on the issue, each baby becomes a U.S. citizen when it takes its first breath.
That could change if legislation that U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., cosponsored in April becomes law.
Lungren, who served as California's attorney general from 1990 to 1998 and worked on the last successful push for an immigration overhaul in Congress in the 1980s, said he is trying to stimulate a debate on what he thinks is a key factor that is drawing immigrants illegally across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Critics have another word for it.
"Xenophobia," said Crystal Williams
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