{"id":5978,"date":"2010-06-16T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5978"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:05:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:05:46","slug":"arizona-fighting-the-14th-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/16\/arizona-fighting-the-14th-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona fighting the 14th Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5979\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Arizona-welcome-sign-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Arizona welcome sign\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/>On the heels of passing a controversial law involving screening illegal immigrants, the <a href=\"http:\/\/az.gov\/\">Arizona<\/a> legislature is <a title=\"considering\" href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/members\/Blog\/LaurieRoberts\/87078\" target=\"_blank\">considering<\/a> a bill that would deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants, despite the <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/data\/constitution\/amendment14\/\">14th Amendment<\/a> to the U.S. Constitution that specifically grants naturalized citizenship to such children.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/law\">Law<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Susan Akram\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/akram_s.html\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Akram<\/a>, an authority on immigration law, says\u00a0getting such a law into constitutionally shape would mean having to amend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usconstitution.net\/\">U.S. Constitution<\/a> &#8212; which requires a two-thirds majority of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/\">both<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/\">houses<\/a> and approval by three-quarters of the states.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAlthough Arizona&#8217;s effort to restrict the guarantees or benefits of birthright citizenship is by no means the first effort of its kind &#8212; and not likely to be the last &#8212; it has a very slim chance of passing constitutional muster.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Susan Akram, 617-358-3060, <a href=\"mailto:smakram@bu.edu\">smakram@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of passing a controversial law involving screening illegal immigrants, the Arizona legislature is considering a bill that would deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants, despite the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that specifically grants naturalized citizenship to such children.\u00a0 Law Professor Susan Akram, an authority on immigration law, says\u00a0getting such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3174,422,2906,176,2935,943,3177,992,2846,1974,3175,3082,3083,2937,3176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5978"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7702,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions\/7702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}