Recent Posts in Birthright Citizenship Category
Posted on Dec 14, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Earlier in the week Stephen Colbert did a skit denouncing the American Heritage dictionary term for "Anchor Babies" which use to reads as follows: anchor baby n. Term for a child born to a ...
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Posted on Nov 10, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With the great news coming out of Arizona on Tuesday regarding, State Senator Russell Pearce (R), the main architect of Arizona’s SB1070 anti-immigrant legislation, we get a ray of hope in our ...
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Posted on Sep 13, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
The National Council of La Raza recently put out a statement last week announcing they would be lifting the boycott in Arizona, declaring a victory in that they have helped prevent more states from ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
When speaking about her own grandparents who had entered into the United States "illegally" back in the 1930's, Martinez commented that times have changed when her grandparents broke the ...
Continue reading "Governor Susana Martinez (R-NM) Shows Her Ignorance." »
Posted on Sep 7, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Probably the last and most telling point to birthright citizenship is the abuses of extremists and some politicians to try to spread misinformation and just out and out lies regarding immigration and ...
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Posted on Sep 6, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Yesterday we blogged about one type of scenario and what would happen if we did not have our current birthright citizenship law. Well here is another example to ponder, let’s say an undocumented ...
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Posted on Sep 5, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Now let's talk about the legal can of worms that would be opened if we repealed our birthright citizenship law. What would happen? First of all, many people have a hard time looking at the big ...
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Posted on Sep 1, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
So we last left off yesterday asking if amending the 14th Amendment is even do-able? But first I would like to examine the reasoning for repealing it by Republicans. The conservatives love to use the ...
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Posted on Aug 31, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
A little brief history on Birthright Citizenship. Citizenship in the United States is under the jurisdiction of federal law and is governed by the United States constitution, which is covered by our ...
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Posted on Jan 6, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Yesterday, Republicans began their assault on trying to end Birthright Citizenship to children that are born in the United States to parents that are undocumented immigrants. This immediately sparked ...
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Posted on Dec 27, 2010 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With the close of 2010 year fast approaching us, it is also a changing of the guard for the House which will now be in Republican control from the Democrats. In just a few short weeks, Congress will ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2010 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With over double (23) of the Democrat Senate seats up for grabs in 2012, compared to only 10 Republican seats, the GOP moderates are looking to put the immigration issue out of play so they can so ...
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