Franken introduces bill to aid children of ICE raids

I’d like to know how Stuart Smalley knows that there are 40,000 children in Minnesota who have illegal alien parents. That’s more kids than are enrolled in the entire public school system in the city of Saint Paul (~38,000).

Like most things Al does, that number’s made up.

Good question Dennis. I wonder how Senator Franken knows that number, or why he uses it. However, the automatic conclusion that it is made up seems kind of knee-jerk to me.

About your number: Franken was speaking about Minnesota as a whole.
Why are you assuming all these kids are enrolled in school?
Seems like you are trying to refute an apple with an orange.

Leave it to Dennis the Republican to complain about American citizens getting help… because according to the Constitution if you are born here yo are a citizen, no matter the legal status of your parents. If that clause wasn’t in the Constitution most Americans wouldn’t be considered Americans.

It doesn’t speak well of us when it becomes necessary to introduce legislation like this to address the lack of common decency towards even young, innocent children in our country – citizens or not. Thank you, Senators Franken and Kohl; this bill should easily pass with bipartisan support.

What happens to the kids of other law-breakers when they’e hauled off to jail? Does the state take custody of them? If so, it seems to me those provisions should apply to these kids without another law being needed.

I suspect that whatever happens to the kids of those lawbreakers depends on whoever has jurisdication – the city police or the county sheriff or the state trooper or the federal agent. I doubt that two senators from two different states would introduce this bill if it was not needed, if it was duplicative of existing law.

“Four million U.S. citizen children in our country have at least one undocumented immigrant parent,” said Franken. “Forty-thousand of those children live in Minnesota. They should not have to live in fear that one day their parents will simply not come home. They deserve much better than being abandoned without explanation.”

Explanation: “Mommy or Daddy broke our laws.”

I remember the kids of the Hormel raid being left with babysitters who weren’t equipped to care for them long-term. Arresting the parent(s) and ignoring the children is child endangerment.

Press on, Sen. Franken!

America moves one step closer to democracy.

en will we change that antiquicated law that makes children born of illegal immigrants citizens?
So pregnant women from other contries come here (illigally)(sp) to have their babies.
Then we have the heartbreak of breaking up families.
It was valid when this country was new, but some things change with time and this is one of them.

That “antiquicated law” bev skinner speaks of is the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

Amendment XIV, Section 1, Clause 1:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Some politicians as of late are talking about an amendment to “fix” this problem. I am very, very wary of this given the potential mischief to the other clauses of the 14th Amendment.

What often baffles me is how cold and uncaring Republicans are. Its like they are missing something inside of them that the rest of the human population has. They want to ban abortion, but yet have no problem with a second grader being left home alone to raise an infant who was left home alone, because their parents have been arrested. They claim to be Christian, but when it comes to Christian values they don’t seem to possess any.