Fifth District Congressman Virgil Goode is trying to make political hay with the debate over illegal immigration, but so far his litany of bills isn’t going anywhere.
In the current congressional term, Goode has co-sponsored 11 bills and three resolutions that target illegal immigrants. All the bills, however, are stuck in committee and did not pass the House. For instance, H.R. 698, the Citizenship Reform Act of 2005, would end the process of granting automatic citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens. “Allowing the babies of illegals to be automatic citizens is another magnet for illegals to invade the United States,” Goode recently told the Danville Bee.
“That’s bogus,” says Al Weed, Goode’s Democratic opponent in the November elections. “Under the 14th Amendment any child born in the U.S. is a citizen. And if the mother of the child is here illegally, she will be deported. I think it is an effort to tap into nativist aspects in America."
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