Get Ready, Barbara Coe Is After the Children Again

La Prensa San Diego › October 14, 2009

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Of course, she won't say that in 1996 the Welfare Reform Act deprived undocumented immigrants any welfare benefits other than emergency medical treatment. And, an important clause, when applying for "dependent" benefits parents must provide their legal status when applying. If not in the US legally, the welfare office is obligated to contact immigration authorities and provide them with a copy of the application. In this manner the proper authorities will investigate and enforce the law. As for [Barbara Coe]'s new scheme, it's unconstitutional as the 14th Amendment clearly indicates that a child born in the United States is a citizen. But she knows this, so she gets to vent out her hatred, and collect several hundred thousand dollars in donations to "help the cause" - it's a good racket for her - temporary fame, insane rhetoric and make money. For a racist it doesn't get much better than that.

Prop 187 passed not because of Coe, but because Governor Pete Wilson running for reelection took up the banner promoting the measure once his political advisors noted that people were blaming him for the state's economic problems and he was more than 20 percentage points behind his opponent. His campaign had to find someone to blame and Prop 187 was just the right issue for that - blame illegal immigrants for all the state's economic woes. Wilson, Coe and the other promoters knew the measure would prove to be unconstitutional since the Supreme Court had ruled in 1982 that no child in the United States can be denied an education. And as far as emergency medical service was concerned, no person can be denied such treatment. It came to pass that Prop 187 died in the courts.

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Get Ready, Barbara Coe Is After the Children Again

In 1994, Barbara Coe from Orange County, California got her 15 minutes of national attention as the founder of California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR). She was a co writer and promoter of the now infamous California Prop. 187. According to Coe, "We ...

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