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Even Texas Has Had Enough
By INVESTOR'S BUSIENSS DAILY | Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 4:20 PM PST

Illegal Immigration: The home state of the president who said compassion does not stop at the border now says that allowing those seeking a better life to come does not mean denying it to those already here.
Not long ago, George W. Bush was governor of Texas, praising the benefits to his state and this nation of immigrants, legal and illegal. He still does, but his political heirs in a state that has a 1,200-mile border with Mexico have embraced a slightly different view.

A recent report from the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 1.4 million to 1.6 million illegal aliens reside in Texas, about 14% of the U.S. total. Another study, this one from the Lone Star Foundation in Austin, said illegal aliens drain $4.5 billion from the Texas economy, mostly in health care costs.

As a result, a growing number of Texas politicians on both sides of the aisle are seeking, in the absence of what they perceive to be meaningful action from Washington, to put the brakes on what was once a relative trickle and is now a flood.

State Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, is the author of one of more than two dozen proposals that target illegal immigration in Texas, proposals that amount to more stick and less carrot. His bill would deny benefits to the children of illegal aliens who under the current interpretation of the 14th Amendment automatically become U.S. citizens. Berman admits he seeks a court fight on the issue.

The 14th Amendment reads: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and (italics added) subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." The operative word here is "jurisdiction."

John Eastman, a law professor at Chapman University and a fellow at the Claremont Institute, argued before Congress not long ago that illegal aliens from Mexico are still foreign nationals and are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction, except for purposes of deportation, and therefore their children born on American soil should not automatically be U.S. citizens.

More than a few legal scholars argue that the 14th Amendment, enacted in 1868 to ensure citizenship rights for the newly freed slaves after the Civil War, was never intended to cover babies born to foreign parents.

"A pregnant alien can wait at the border, check into a hospital in Texas, give birth without paying a penny, and be rewarded for her illegal behavior," Berman said. He noted that at Parkland Hospital in Dallas and the public hospital in Houston, 70% of babies are born to illegal aliens.

In addition to health care costs, Texas schools paid more than $1.7 billion to educate illegal immigrants and the legal children of illegal immigrants in 2003-04, said the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

Berman is not alone. Other bills would tax money that illegal immigrants wire abroad, require parents to verify legal residency before receiving state medical services and eliminate in-state tuition breaks for illegal immigrants.

Why, it is argued, should illegal immigrants from a neighboring country get a break when American citizens from a neighboring state do not?

State Sen. Royce West, a Democrat from Dallas, wants to tax remittances sent to Mexico as a way of defraying health care costs. He wondered: "Why should illegal immigrants, who by virtue of being in the country have broken the law, be able to get the same state services as a citizen?"

Some might argue that this is xenophobia run amok. We think it's simply a recognition that our resources are not infinite, and that one way to control illegal immigration is to reduce the incentives to income. If this country requires guest workers, so be it, as long as they are invited.

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Originally Posted by mdillon1172

so DUMP your subscription to the WSJ.... and go for IBD

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Absolutely. WSJ one of the most treasonous publications out there. Right up there with NY Times and Washington Post. I'm actually shocked at IBD. Its refreshing to hear.