Byline: ALAN C. MILLER and RONALD J. OSTROW Los Angeles Times
The current immigration law is viewed as so unsuccessful that its co-author has asked Attorney General Janet Reno to explore the merits of a proposed constitutional amendment that would revoke the sacrosanct right to citizenship for anyone born on American soil whose parents are here illegally.
Rep. Romano L. Mazzoli, a believer in the contributions immigrants make to this country, co-authored the exhaustively debated 1986 law that was touted as the remedy for the problems of illegal immigration.
Yet concern over the issue has grown so intense that the moderate Kentucky Democrat is ready to start over.
"I want to provoke some thinking about the issue," Mazzoli said recently. "I said when you're going to sit down and think about this whole issue, you've got to think about it from the bedrock up. And I've asked her to start with the whole question of citizenship."
Mazzoli's admission is an unmistakable sign that the uproar over illegal immigration is no longer confined …
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