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Immigration to bring together Hispanic lawmakers at White House

Apr 20, 2007

WASHINGTON Democratic and Republican Hispanic lawmakers are linking up to lobby President Bush on a sweeping House immigration bill.

The meeting next week at the White House will be the first time the Hispanic lawmakers have formally put aside political differences to join together on an issue. They requested the meeting with Bush.

Several Hispanic lawmakers have signed up as co-sponsors to the House immigration bill.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus used to be bipartisan, but in 1993 several Republican lawmakers broke away. Republican Hispanic lawmakers and members of Portuguese descent formed their own group in 2003.

Bush has been pushing for a comprehensive immigration bill, but movement on any legislation has been slow. The White House and supporters are trying to build support for some of the main concepts Bush wants.

The president backs allowing illegal immigrants to legally work in the U-S and meeting certain requirements like learning English and paying fines to eventually become permanent legal residents.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Senator Jacob Howard, the author of the citizenship clause in the Fourteenth Amendment, defined who would fall within the “jurisdiction of the United States”:

[E]very person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States.

This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.

It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States.