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1 Rutgers Race & L. Rev. 129 (1998-1999)
Who May Give Birth to Citizens--Reproduction, Eugenics and Immigration

handle is hein.journals/rrace1 and id is 143 raw text is: SYMPOSIUM: IMMIGRATION REFORM LAWS: REDEFINING WHO BELONGS WHO MAY GIVE BIRTH TO CITIZENS? REPRODUCTION, EUGENICS AND IMMIGRATION By Dorothy E. Roberts* It is probably apparent that I disagree with Peter Brimelow'st position. What I like about his way of putting for- ward his opposition to immigration policy is that at least he is honest about it. I think what Peter Brimelow says is true: there is a difference between what the American identity is and what some wish the American identity to remain as- namely, a White national identity. Are there reasons to change the White national identity? I also like what he says about this being not only a question of race, but also a ques- tion of political power and a question of what our vision of America will look like. I did not come to the issue of immigration because I am an expert on immigration policy; I have done little work on it. My specialization is reproductive health policy. However, it occurred to me that a number of the proposals that the anti- immigration folks were putting on the table had to do with the children of undocumented immigrants. In other words, the is- sue of immigration is not just a matter of keeping people out at the borders; it is also a question of the status of the children of undocumented immigrants who are already in the United States. It seems to me that this is a question of reproductive * Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law - Newark. She received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. 1. Peter Brimelow, the senior editor of Forbes and the author of Alien Nation: Common Sense about America's Immigration Disaster (1995), was a panelist at the symposium.

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