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woman is disabled and cares for two daughters. ASU in the News "I didn’t know what I was going to do," Fox said. "I was strongly thinking about going into a shelter or something." Tolman’s company also has run afoul of the city’s code compliance office, responsible for keeping neighborhoods from descending into blight. A one-bedroom apartment on 124 S. Barkley was given notice for overgrown grass and weeds. Tolman confirmed his company is responsible for cutting the grass and common areas on his rental properties. The Barkley case was resolved, according to city records. But in cases that drag out, the city’s code compliance officers can cite property management companies. Tolman said he didn’t know if his company has ever been cited. And city officials also couldn’t say whether Tolman’s company has been cited for any serious, ongoing issues. 102
ASU in the News URL: Link to original text Source: EastValleyTribune.com Title: Citizen or illegal? - ASU’s Cruz comments Nielsen NetRatings: 263382 Favorability: Positive Full Text: Kimberly was afraid about going to Guatemala. But the 9-year-old girl knew it was inevitable. Her parents were here illegally, and her mom had been caught. When the Tribune interviewed Kimberly last month, she knew her mother was about to be deported. That happened a short time later. Ten days ago, Kimberly and her two younger brothers followed. Guatemala is a place Kimberly had never been and knew almost nothing about. She was born here. She went to school here. She learned English and adopted the American culture here. In her heart, Kimberly said, she is American. ’It scares me a lot,’ Kimberly said of going to a nation she had never seen and has no ties to. ’It’s unfair to me. It’s just unfair.’ Kimberly and her siblings are Americans, all born and raised in the Valley. The way things stand today, virtually anyone born in the United States is an American citizen, regardless of the immigration status of their parents. But critics are pushing to change that. An initiative has been launched in Arizona to challenge the presumption that American-born children of illegal immigrants are citizens. There is a separate effort being pushed in the Legislature to achieve that same goal. For years, legislation has been proposed in Congress that would strip automatic citizenship from American-born children whose parents are in the country illegally. So far, the federal effort has failed to gain traction. There is no tougher issue in the debate over illegal immigration than what to do with U.S .-born children like Kimberly. Their parents are breaking the law and face deportation if caught. The children are American citizens as a birthright, and are entitled to the same rights and benefits as children born to American parents. But as the numbers of these children continue to grow, so does the pressure to re-examine the issue of what is called ’birthright citizenship.’ Critics of automatic citizenship for children of illegal immigrants say that notion is based on a misinterpretation of the Constitution never resolved by the U.S . Supreme Court. Some use the term ’anchor babies’ to describe those children, arguing the kids allow illegal immigrants to tap into taxpayer-funded welfare and health programs while making it less likely the parents will be deported if they get caught. No one can say for sure how many of these children are in the United States, or how much they cost. Last year, taxpayers picked up the tab for more than 18,000 babies born in Arizona to parents who could not prove they were in the country legally. Labor and delivery costs alone were almost $88 million for those children. There are roughly 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States, according to studies from various organizations. That figure does not count the estimated 3.5 million to 4million children born in the U.S . to parents here illegally. Theyare counted as Americans, not illegal immigrants. Almost one in five children born annually in Maricopa County is the child of a mother who is an illegal immigrant, according to studies based on 2002 data by the Center for Immigration Studies. That percentage has almost certainly grown in the last six years, said Steven Camarota, the center’s director of research. Mothers who are illegal immigrants account for about 17.2 percent of the children born in Arizona and about 9.5 percent of those nationwide, according to Camarota’s studies, based on Census data and records of all births compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics. Separate studies by the Pew Hispanic Center estimate about two-thirds of the children living in U.S . families headed by illegal immigrants are American citizens by birth, according to Jeffrey Passel of the center. Those numbers, and the costs associated with the taxpayer-financed benefits those children qualify for, are driving the effort to challenge the notion of automatic citizenship, said Della Montgomery, chairwoman of the committee circulating the initiative petition. ’I’m not saying ’starve them to death,’’ Montgomery said. ’I’m just saying they are not citizens. It’s in such numbers now and it’s costing us money. We just can’t keep it up.’ The initiative would prohibit the state from issuing a birth certificate to a child born to illegal immigrant parents. Montgomery said she knows that, if passed, the initiative would be the subject of a court battle. The ultimate goal is to force the U.S . Supreme Court to decide the issue, she said. COST OF CARE Figuring the cost of American children born to illegal immigrants is tough. For one thing, they’re not 103
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