Interesting that as a recent poll showed, 60% support a pathway to citizenship, yet an Arizona legislator has decided to throw more obstacles in the path, and choose to make distinctions along gender lines.

AZ Central:

Arizona voters may be asked to decide whether to prohibit the state from issuing birth certificates to children of non-U.S. citizens and require hospitals to check the citizenship of parents of newborns.[..]

Della Montgomery, the woman who filed the proposed initiative with the Secretary of State's Office, did not immediately return a call for comment Monday, but the proposed "Birthright Citizenship Alignment Act" appears to be aimed at illegal immigration.

"They are awarding the full privileges of United States citizenship of all persons born in the state without regard for the clear and equal requirements of federal law that a person born in the United States, shall citizenship be bestowed, shall not be subject to any foreign power and owe direct and immediate allegiance to the United States," the proposed initiative's declaration of purpose states.[..]

While generally banning issuance of birth certificates to non-citizens, the measure would permit one to be issued to a child whose mother is a foreign citizen and whose father is a U.S. citizen if the father formally acknowledges parentage and agrees in writing to financially support the child until adulthood.

Denying certificates to children born of an American mother and a foreign father? But not vice versa? And only if the father acknowledges paternity? Wow.