In cases of unmarried parents, the child’s mother had to be a citizen or legal resident. A year earlier he supported a proposal to let border states launch militias whose members could make arrests. In 2005, Pence joined efforts to pass a sweeping immigration bill that was among the first to propose hundreds of miles of fencing along the Mexican border. A 2005 version of the bill that he supported called for automatic citizenship for children whose parents were married, so long as one of the parents was a citizen or legal resident. Indiana Governor Mike Pence’s conservative track record on immigration dates to his earliest days in the US House and echoes the hardline stance of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who chose Pence as his running mate.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 17, 2016 19:07 UTC