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Desert Sun: Her mother waited until her water broke to cross the border from Mexicali. “She always told me if I was a U.S. citizen, I could go to school and be better off than if I were born in Mexico,” Jaramillo said. For eight years, she was raised in Mexico; then her family moved to the United States. Today, she is the student body president at College of the Desert, where she is studying political science.
Families with mixed legal status — such as the Jaramillos — are one of many complications created by the nation's broken immigration policies that fuel divisive debate over reform, say researchers at the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research center in Washington D.C. And anti-immigration advocates aren't waiting for President Barack Obama's promised overhaul. Local supporters are collecting signatures for a proposed California initiative that would require that birth certificates be stamped “foreign” for U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants — a tactic designed to limit the state benefits they receive. They want it on the ballot next year. The proposed measure is hailed by supporters as a way to rein in state spending by discouraging immigrants from having what they dub “anchor babies,” a derogatory term for U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants that give the family a foothold in the country.
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