Slide Show: The GOP's Worst Ideas | The Nation: "Kris Kobach, the Republican candidate for Kansas’s Secretary of State, has joined Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce’s push to deny American citizenship to children born in the US of undocumented parents. Republicans are divided on this issue, but candidates such as Kobach think that targeting “anchor babies” will stymie the “immigrant invasion” far-right candidates have been decrying throughout this election season. The problem is, as Robin Templeton points out in “Baby Baiting,” Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment clearly states that 'all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”"
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