FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 5, 2011

Contact:
Paco Fabián
(202) 785-1670
NCLR CALLS ASSAULT ON CONSTITUTION’S CITIZENSHIP CLAUSE INFLAMMATORY, IMPRACTICAL, AND IMMORAL

Washington, DC—NCLR (National Council of La Raza), the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, today called recent proposals to repeal the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment—which confers citizenship on all persons born on U.S. soil—“inflammatory, impractical, and immoral.â€