Arizona senator behind SB-1070 plans next bill: Target the mother by going after the anchor baby racket.
A Phoenix news station (KPHO) is reporting that the state Senator behind Arizona’s new immigration law, Russell Pierce (R), does not intend on stopping at SB-1070. In e-mails obtained by the local CBS affiliate, Pearce said he intends to push for an “anchor baby” bill that would essentially overturn the 14th amendment by no longer granting citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants born on U.S. soil.
This bothers me but it doesn’t. It’s so blatantly unconstitutional that it’ll die a quick death. On the other hand, the Republican message I’m hearing is that every infant is beautiful and precious (see: abortion) unless it comes from a dirty Mexican.