Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) said he introduced a bill Monday designed to challenge the 14th Amendment, which he said does not give birthright citizenship to children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents.

Berman said if the bill is signed into law, it will immediately be challenged in federal court by groups like the American Civil Liberties Union. Berman hopes the case will go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to change the interpretation of the amendment.

"We want to be sued," Berman said.

The bill, one of nine illegal alien bills Berman filed Monday at the capitol, would not give birth certificates to children born in Texas whose parents are illegal aliens. The child would be given a certificate that proves it was born, then it could go to the family's home country to prove citizenship.

"We have approximately two million illegal aliens in texas at a cost to texas tax payers of $4 billion every year," he said.

Berman said since illegal aliens do not have jurisdiction in the United States, neither should their children.

"We are handing out 350,000 U.S. citizenships to children born here illegally," he said.

Berman said taxpayers are paying for 12,500 incarcerated illegal aliens in state prisons, and as many more in the county and municipal jails. Texans are paying $39 million a year to incarcerate illegal aliens.

Hospitals in Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth see more than 70 percent of new child births from illegal aliens. This puts a financial burden on hospitals, Berman said.

A federal mandate to give health care services anyone needing emergency treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay.

"It really bothers me that illegal aliens have better health benefits than many of my middle income constituents," he said.

States around Texas like Oklahoma and Arizona passed legislation to deal with the illegal alien problems in those states. As a result of that legislation illegal aliens began to leave, but they came to Texas, Berman said.

Berman is now introducing an identical bill to Oklahoma's illegal immigration law. The law authorizes law enforcement officers to take 287 G training from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The bill also severely punishes employees of illegal aliens and those who transport or house them. The Oklahoma law also deals with identity theft, "much of which is being done by illegal aliens," Berman said.

Berman's bills will be among 30 or so filed this session trying to prevent burdens caused by illegal aliens on Texas taxpayers, he said.

"If we cannot pass legislation to deal with a huge illegal alien problem in texas, then at the end of the next session I will consider running for governor of the state of texas, to be able to use the executive powers of the office of governor to deal with this major problem."