Metcalfe would deny automatic citizenship to illegals' kids born in U.S.

Published on Fri, Jan 07, 2011

"The proposal presented today is clearly unconstitutional and an embarrassing distraction from the need to reform our nation's immigration laws," said Benjamin Johnson, executive director of the nonprofit American Immigration Council. "It constitutes a vicious assault on the U.S. Constitution and flies in the face of generations of efforts to expand civil rights.

"It is an attack on innocent children born in the U.S. who would be confined to a new second-class citizenship and vulnerable to abuse and discrimination," Johnson said.

Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune | Read Article