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((In Mexico, the mestizas birth at home. Here they go to the hospital
for a few free days of pampering and a US birth certificate for their
little mestizito, who thereafter is errantly designated a U.S. citizen
and can never be kicked out no matter how uneducated, non-American,
non-English-speaking-in a word, brown-it stays. My idea: make OB/GYNs
mandatory ICE agents....Bret.))


View From Lodi, CA Pittsburgh, PA: California’s Chance—A Two-Tiered
Birth Certificate Initiative

By Joe Guzzardi

"According to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest grim report, by the middle of next year California’s budget deficit will be $42 billion. Schwarzenegger claims that the state will be flat broke in February…as in next month.

Obviously, serious action resulting in long-term financial relief must
be taken.

But so far, Schwarzenegger has only offered up predictable, short-term
and ineffectual piecemeal solutions.

Among them are unpaid furloughs for certain state employees, putting
off essential infrastructure repairs and a federal government bail
out.

What’s badly needed is a realistic approach to how California handles
how it disburses much-needed monies to its illegal alien population—a
problem that has been ignored for forty years.

Good news is on the horizon.

Voters will have a chance to put on the June 2010 ballot a measure
that will deal fairly and realistically—not harshly and punitively—
with California’s alien population by effectively eliminating the 14th
Amendment birthright citizenship clause that eventually entitles
illegal immigrants to collect a cornucopia of social services.

According to many legal scholars, the 14th Amendment phrase "subject
to the jurisdiction" means that birthright citizens can be born only
to parents who are not subjects of a foreign power, as illegal aliens
obviously are.

The California Taxpayer Protection Act is a statewide initiative that
could end the automatic citizenship status wrongly bestowed upon
children born to illegal aliens and foreign visitors in the United
States.

Authored by Ted Hilton, a Constitutional law scholar and expert on the
14th Amendment's original intent, the measure has three major
provisions.

* First, it would create an alternate type of California birth
certificate for children born to illegal aliens and others who are not
legal permanent residents.

A birth certificate—like the one I have— would be issued only to
children with at least one parent who submits an affidavit stating
that he or she is a citizen or a permanent legal resident, pending
verification of social security numbers.

* Second, the legislation would restrict illegal alien parents
from applying for child-only benefits like Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families for their U.S. born children by requiring that all
applicants be lawfully present.
* Third, public benefits would be limited because qualifying for
them would require a signed affidavit under penalty of perjury that
one is a citizen or qualified alien, and it would use Systematic Alien
Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program to verify legal
residency.

Birth mothers who are not citizens or legal residents would be
required to: apply for a birth certificate in person, provide complete
identity as well as means of support; submit three passport-type
photographs; and be fingerprinted.

All of this information would be provided to Immigration and Customs
Enforcement. These applicants would pay a $75 fee.

An indirect benefit of the California Taxpayer Protection Act is that
it will spark a national debate that’s needed to act as a precursor to
ending automatic citizenship nationwide.

If California is successful, it will set the stage for other states to
follow with similar legislation.

That, in turn, would likely prompt litigation in opposition that could
eventually bring the question before give U.S. Supreme Court for a
ruling.

The high court has never decided a citizenship case for children of
illegal or temporary residents. Thus the misguided and unintended
interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment has evolved.

Citizens have multiple reasons to support this measure.

In addition to saving millions of dollars, the act would reduce
California’s crime rate. A major reason deported criminal illegal
aliens return immediately to the United States after deportation is
because they have left behind children born here. According to Michael
Chertoff, Homeland Security Secretary, there are two million criminal
illegal aliens in the U.S.

There can never be "border security" without ending automatic
citizenship.

June 2010—eighteen months from now—may seem a long way off. But
initiatives that attempt to correct Politically Correct injustices are
an uphill climb so it’s best to spread the word early. "


http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/090109_vfl.htm