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May 29, 1:44 PM EDT

Wash. GOP Issues Resolution on Immigration

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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) -- The Washington state Republican Party has adopted a resolution calling for an end to the Constitution's guarantee of automatic citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.

Delegates supporting that platform said their concerns included the cost to public hospitals and the expense of welfare for the children of indigent or deported illegal immigrants.

"I think voters realize immigration is a problem and we are trying to grapple with solutions to the illegal-immigration problem," Diane Tubeless, state GOP chairwoman, said of the resolution adopted Saturday with little debate and few dissenting votes.

The 14th Amendment says: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."




State Democratic Party Chairman Dwight Pelz called the GOP resolution "a punitive and inhumane response to the immigration issue America is confronting" and said it would prove to be an "embarrassment" to Republican candidates
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