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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 759070" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/080810dnmetbabies.2be9a7e.html" target="_blank">(Dallas News)</a>-&nbsp; As Republican members of Congress press for changes to the 14th&nbsp; Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, preventing automatic citizenship for&nbsp; babies born to illegal immigrants, opponents insist the debate is not&nbsp; really about babies.&nbsp;Still, the debate could resonate in Texas, where not only 1.5&nbsp; million illegal immigrants are estimated to reside but at least 60,000&nbsp; babies are added to their households annually.&nbsp;Parkland Memorial Hospital delivers more of those babies than any&nbsp; other hospital in the state. Last year at Parkland, 11,071 babies were&nbsp; born to women who were noncitizens, about 74 percent of total&nbsp; deliveries. Most of these women are believed to be in the country&nbsp; illegally.&nbsp;…In Texas, between 60,000 to 65,000 babies achieve U.S. citizenship&nbsp; annually by being born in the state’s hospitals, according to a tally&nbsp; released by the state’s Health and Human Services Commission. Last year,&nbsp; such births represented almost 16 percent of the total births&nbsp; statewide.&nbsp;Between 2001 and 2009, births to illegal immigrant women totaled 542,152 in Texas alone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 759070, member: 12952"] [URL="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/080810dnmetbabies.2be9a7e.html"](Dallas News)[/URL]- As Republican members of Congress press for changes to the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, preventing automatic citizenship for babies born to illegal immigrants, opponents insist the debate is not really about babies. [B]Still, the debate could resonate in Texas, where not only 1.5 million illegal immigrants are estimated to reside but at least 60,000 babies are added to their households annually.[/B] Parkland Memorial Hospital delivers more of those babies than any other hospital in the state. Last year at Parkland, 11,071 babies were born to women who were noncitizens, about 74 percent of total deliveries. Most of these women are believed to be in the country illegally. …In Texas, between 60,000 to 65,000 babies achieve U.S. citizenship annually by being born in the state’s hospitals, according to a tally released by the state’s Health and Human Services Commission. Last year, such births represented almost 16 percent of the total births statewide. [B]Between 2001 and 2009, births to illegal immigrant women totaled 542,152 in Texas alone.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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