Gabriel J. Chin
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Gabriel J. Chin is Chester H. Smith Professor of Law at the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law. Paul Finkelman is President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Government Law Center.

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Parents, Children, and Citizenship by Birth

Posted August 19, 2010 | 03:29:20 (EST)

Under the Fourteenth Amendment, children born in the United States are citizens, even if their parents are not. Inspired by Arizona's new (and partially suspended) law regulating unauthorized immigration, Senators Mitch McConnell, John Kyl, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Representative John Boehner, and other Republican leaders have proposed considering amending the...

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