Chicago Tribune.
If we are going to treat the U.S.-born children of people living in the country illegally as second-class citizens, let’s at least be honest about it, and about how doing so treads upon our core constitutional principles.
Evidence of the targeting of U.S. citizen children of immigrants is subtle but growing. Last week, The Washington Post reported that U.S. Department of Agriculture officials in charge of the food stamp program met with a conservative group to discuss ideas that included reducing food-stamp benefits to U.S. citizen children of immigrants.
