Challenge media errors on birthright citizenship

A timely post from www.numbersusa.com about media bias on the 14th amendment. This follows this previous post about birthright citizenship This follows this post about last month's Arizona ruling and this post about the MURDER of ROBERT KRENTZ, who the protestors and boycotters won't give a solution for, but will call Americans racist for trying to prevent another MURDER, and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.


STOP THE MEDIA LIES ABOUT EFFORTS
TO END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP FOR CHILDREN
OF TOURISTS & ILLEGAL ALIENS

Thanks for the tens of thousands of faxes you sent since yesterday to your Senators and U.S. Representative asking support for a law to end giving U.S. citizenship to the children of tourists and illegal aliens.

But I want to ask you to consider this:

ACTION 1: Go to the website of your local newspaper or TV and radio stations when they report wrong information about this issue. Write in their comment sections the truth as you find it on the NumbersUSA website.

ACTION 2: Phone your local newspaper, TV or radio and complain to the ombudsman, receptionist or editor about errors in reporting on birthright citizenship.

As a 25-year newspaper veteran reporter, I can tell you that most U.S. journalism is significantly unprofessional in covering immigration most of the time.

But this last week has been among the worst I've seen -- because of the coverage of the birthright citizenship controversy.

How many times did reporters, editorial writers, columnists and anchors use phrases like "repealing the 14th amendment?"

Good grief! No opponent of birthright citizenship has talked about REPEALING the 14th amendment with all of its post-Civil War guarantees of civil rights.

Read more here.

And how many of the news reports have stated that ending birthright citizenship would be a radical move that would make the U.S. something of a human rights outlaw?

The journalists seem to have no concept that most modern nations have gotten rid of birthright citizenship.

I made a mistake in my alert to you last night when I said that the U.S. is the ONLY developed nation in the world to retain birthright citizenship for illegal aliens. It turns out that Canada also still allows it. But that's it.

Visit our brand new page listing all nations and their stance on giving citizenship to illegal aliens. We have included links to the sources because so many have requested them.

Don't let journalists get away with saying that the 14th Amendment requires birthright citizenship.

At the least, professional journalists should say that Constitutional scholars are divided about this, and that the Supreme Court will have to decide after Congress passes a law to change the LAW (not the amendment) that gives birthright citizenship.

Read more here.

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP A MAJOR CAUSE
OF U.S. POPULATION EXPLOSION

There are those who claim that the reward of U.S. citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens is not a big enough problem to worry about.

But about one-sixth of U.S. population growth each year is caused by this federal policy of bestowing the full rights of citizenship on these approximately half-million anchor babies each year.

We now have millions of these "birthright citizens," many of whom are now having children of their own.

To the extent that the biggest population explosion in U.S. history (underway today) is driving the destruction of approximately 1 million acres of natural habitat, farmland and open space each year, birthright citizenship has giant long-term consequences.

The consequences are even sooner for taxpayers who must subsidize most of the educational and medical costs of these children of mostly-poor illegal aliens.

'ANCHOR BABIES' A MAJOR FACTOR IN PUSH FOR AMNESTY

The children born in the United States to illegal alien mothers are often referred to as "anchor babies."

Read more here.

They act as an anchor for their illegal-alien parents almost as soon as they are born.

Notice how often in debating the reasons why amnesty is necessary that the proponents say it would be immoral to deport illegal alien adults because they have children who are U.S. citizens because they were born in the U.S.?

In fact, unwritten federal policy now forbids DHS from deporting nearly all the illegal alien parents of children born in the U.S.

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP AN ENEMY OF UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS

Because this federal practice of birthright citizenship protects millions of illegal foreign workers from facing the prospect of deportation, millions of lower-skilled unemployed Americans find it much more difficult to obtain a job.

I wish more Members of Congress would spend time with the kind of poor Americans I have encountered every summer.

I just came back from my 21st summer work week with teenagers, leading them in improving the housing for poor Americans. This time I was in Appalachia.

Millions of Americans live in deplorable housing conditions primarily because they don't have jobs, or because the ones they have pay too little, or because they are elderly and their children lack decent jobs.

These are the Americans who compete in the service, transportation, construction and manufacturing industries with illegal foreign workers. And while there aren't many foreign workers in Appalachia, there are in the neighboring regions where Appalachian residents have long commuted for their cash.

Read more here.

Although there is no way that the leaders of Congress would allow any movement on a bill this year to repeal birthright citizenship, it is an important issue upon which to nail down a response from candidates for Congress about what they will do next year.

There is a ton of interest in this subject in the news media right now.

Please help educate journalists about the real facts. And put the pressure on them when they insist on biased reporting.