1004_Ind1_S1

Name: **Alexis Hosticka**

Instructions: Now that your group has decided on an issue, you must demonstrate that there is a problem. You will turn in this research sheet completed with two articles attached that you showed that there is a problem

...that the children of illegal immigrants, according to the 14th Amendment, are legal citizens. This means that as tax-paying U.S. citizens, we are funding education, health care, and more for these children. As a country with an increasingly growing financial deficit, we cannot afford to be paying for this. One can think about the situation like this: imagine someone has stolen money, then invests this stolen money. The interest or returns of this investment do not legally belong to that person who stole the money. This is a metaphor to the situation of illegal immigrants if one thinks of the bank as as the United States, the stolen money as an illegal immigrant, and the interest as a child of the illegal immigrant. The child should not be a legal citizen. The 14th Amendment was added to the United States Constitution in 1868, a completely different time for immigration. This amendment is outdated and needs to be drastically altered so that it discourages illegal immigrants from coming to the United States.
 * I. There is a problem in society today. That problem is:**

//(Two articles and bibliography must be attached)// In 2008, there were 4 million children born in the U.S. to at least one illegal parent. Recently, the numbers have continued to grow, as 350,000 babies were born in the U.S. between March 2009 and March 2010 to illegal parents. This includes parents who travel to the the U.S. soley to have their child. Studies has shown that the number of parents who do this is relatively small, however this should be a nonexsistent problem. In general, it has been proven that birthright citizen ship is a lure for foreigners when they consider sneaking into the U.S. This is a lure because the parents know that their childrens' educations will be paid for and that they will receive public beneifts, all funded by taxpayer money. These parents, however, can still be deported back to their respective countries of origin, potentially causing legal problems as well as causing the government to have to pay for their deportation.
 * II. Facts that demonstrate that there is a problem are:**

 WORKS CITED:  Gomez, Alan. “Immigration Report: No Rush across Border to Give Birth.” //USA Today// 2 Feb. 2011: n. pag. //USA Today//. Web. 14 Feb. 2011. .  Solis, Dianne. “Number of Illlegal Immigrants’ Children Soars, Pew Hispanic Center Study Finds.” //Dallas Morning News// 15 Apr. 2009: n. pag. //Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context//. Web. 14 Feb. 2011. .