Initiative drive targets illegal immigrants’ kids

July 13th, 2009, 11:19 am
Orange County Register
Posted by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter

Activists have begun collecting signatures for a proposed ballot measure designed to block some benefits to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants and to make it more difficult for those children to become U.S. citizens.

The 14th Amendment provides U.S.-born children with U.S. citizenship “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.â€