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> Keith
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> http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp? S=3434116
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> While Congress and the White House wrangle over federal policy on
> illegal immigrants, states and cities are wrestling with ways to
> accommodate their children, most of them U.S.-born American citizens,
> all with Supreme Court-granted rights to public education.
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> The debate is often bitter and unpredictable as politicians argue
> whether to expand or cut health care for these families, whether to
> bolster illegal-immigrant-oriented school programs, and whether to
> offer in-state college tuition rates to children of illegal aliens.
>
> Some politicians and organizations contend that initiatives tailored
> to assist these children only lure more illegals to the United States.
> Others argue that most of these several million children will be
> lifelong Americans, and are more likely to be productive adults if
> they receive support now.
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> "If you've got children already here, let's assume they're a future
> part of society and are worth the same investment as any other kids,"
> said Randy Capps, lead author of a recent Urban Institute report on
> young immigrant children.
>
> The report estimated that 22 percent of all American children under 6
> have illegal alien parents. More than 90 percent of these children
> were born in the United States and automatically are citizens, and
> nearly one-third, 1.3 million, live with at least one illegal alien
> parent, the report said.
>
> Those seeking tougher measures against undocumented people want
> Congress and the federal courts to reconsider two long-standing
> national policies, a constitutional provision that bestows citizenship
> on any child born on U.S. soil and a 1982 Supreme Court ruling
> requiring public schools to accommodate any school-age child
> regardless of immigration status.
>
> "That Supreme Court decision was probably the single most devastating
> decree that undermined immigration controls," said Dan Stein,
> president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
>
> Some recent examples of how the immigration debate is playing out:
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> Lawmakers in Washington state last month restored state-funded health
> coverage, severed in 2002, for thousands of children of illegal
> immigrants.
> School officials in Houston plan to open a school specifically for
> immigrants, whether or not they are in the country legally. A new
> report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which seeks
> tougher enforcement of immigration laws, asserts that educating
> children of illegal immigrants costs Texas more than $4 billion
> annually.
> Bills that would allow undocumented students to qualify for low,
> in-state college tuition rates stalled in North Carolina and died in
> Connecticut and Arkansas. Nine states have enacted such measures, but
> Kansas' law is being challenged in federal court.
> Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed a bill that would have prohibited
> illegal immigrants from receiving child care assistance.
>
> Last November, Arizona voters approved a measure requiring state
> employees to report illegal immigrants to federal authorities if they
> apply for certain benefits.
>
> Advocates for immigrants say the result is that many parents, fearing
> deportation, do not seek services such as health care or food stamps
> to which their U.S.-born children are entitled.
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> Many programs sprouting up across the country are designed to offset
> such parental fears. Chicago, for example, is establishing health
> centers at public schools to serve children whose undocumented
> families are too poor or too apprehensive to seek medical care for
> them.
>
> At St. Cecilia's Church in New York's East Harlem neighborhood, Regina
> Kirk directs a Catholic Charities support program for Mexican and
> Ecuadorean mothers, virtually all of them undocumented.
>
> Fear of deportation "is always there, it affects every aspect of their
> lives," Kirk said. Still, she said the mothers have taught each other
> ways to obtain food stamps and adequate health care for their
> children.
>
> "Though many are wary because they're undocumented, once you start
> talking about their kids, they're willing to be assertive," Kirk said.
> "Despite all their problems and worries ... they feel they're giving
> their kids the best possible shot at the future."
>
> One of the St. Cecilia mothers, 33-year-old Maria Romano, came to the
> United States illegally 17 years ago from Mexico's Guerrero state and
> now has three children, 15, 14 and 10. The eldest, Luis, has had
> serious health problems since birth and is enrolled in a
> special-education program at his public school.
>
> "In Mexico, we couldn't have gotten care like this for Luis," Romano
> said. "His being alive today is because he was born in the United
> States."
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> She said undocumented parents like herself, with children who are U.S.
> citizens, "need to assert the rights they know their children
> deserve."
>
> "Vigilance is the key," she said. "It requires perseverance to stay
> informed."
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> Mary Ellen Ros, executive director of Catholic Charities Community
> Services in New York, said her agency assists roughly 80,000
> immigrants a year, many from families with at least one member in the
> United States illegally.
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> Though the families usually are tight-knit, young children often have
> to take the initiative because of their parents' fears or
> unfamiliarity with U.S. culture.
>
> "These children have to contend with the school system or medical
> system without the benefit of a parent who can guide them the same way
> as an American-born parent," Ros said. "The child is very often
> breaking new ground on the parent's behalf."
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> http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=97697
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> * Lawmakers in Washington state last month restored state-funded
> health coverage, severed in 2002, for thousands of children of illegal
> immigrants. * School officials in Houston plan to open a school
> specifically for immigrants, whether or not they are in the country
> legally. A new report by the Federation for American Immigration
> Reform, which seeks tougher enforcement of immigration laws, asserts
> that educating children of illegal immigrants costs Texas more than $4
> billion annually. * Bills that would allow undocumented students to
> qualify for low, in-state college tuition rates stalled in North
> Carolina and died in Connecticut and Arkansas. Nine states have
> enacted such measures, but Kansas' law is being challenged in federal
> court. * Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed a bill that would have
> prohibited illegal immigrants from receiving child care assistance.
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