According to reports compiled by the U.S. "World Journal," the Los Angeles Times pointed out on the 28th that California Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter stated he would support the deportation of children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants. Additionally, in Iowa, a physician vying for the Republican nomination in this fall's congressional election called for microchipping undocumented immigrants to track their movements.
During a recent Tea Party rally in California, someone asked Congressman Hunter: “Do you support deporting the citizen children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States?” Hunter replied: “Yes, I have to support that.” Hunter continued: “This is a complicated issue. People might think this is unkind or not generous enough. But this is not a humanitarian matter; we cannot tolerate the current practices, and California cannot endure it.”
Hunter also confirmed that he supports House Resolution 1868 from last year. This bill seeks to abolish the rule that children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants automatically acquire U.S. citizenship. Hunter stated: “You shouldn't be able to become a U.S. citizen simply by crossing a border.”
Dr. Patrick Bertroche of Iowa is competing against six others for the Republican nomination for Congress in the state's third district. At a forum on the 26th, he proposed his solution to the undocumented immigration problem: “We need to catch them, document them, know where they are, and know where they are going.”
Bertroche said: “I support microchipping them. I can microchip my dog so I can find him. So why can't we microchip illegal immigrants?” Bertroche stated that the debate over immigration has become very silly and radical, and meaningless; his remarks were merely intended to illustrate that immigration is a vital social issue, and it was not his intention to compare immigrants to dogs.
