GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Arizona Senate Panel Passes Sweeping Bills Targeting Illegals, Birthright Citizenship

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Fox News

23February2011 4:42amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: PHOENIX -- An Arizona Senate committee late Tuesday narrowly approved a sweeping bill that would target illegal immigrants in public housing, public benefits and the workplace.

The committee earlier Tuesday also approved a bill that would deny automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants in a measure designed to set up a possible U.S. Supreme Court case on the issue.

Republican state Sen. Russell Pearce, who authored Arizona's controversial illegal immigration law last year that touched off a nationwide debate on whether states can enforce federal immigration laws, sponsored Tuesday's more sweeping measure.

"If you're in the country illegally, you don't have a right to public benefits, period," he said. (read full report)

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