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Posted on 01/02/2011 4:16:18 PM PST by artichokegrower
California voters sent a strong message this past election that we want hardworking, inclusive and responsive governance, not buck-passing and scapegoating.
Even some candidates who won seem to have missed the memo. Immigrant families and our growing coalition of supporters stand ready to remind them.
Two recently re-elected Northern California congressmen, Dan Lungren and Tom McClintock, announced last month that they will join a quest to change the U.S. Constitution to deny citizenship to babies born on American soil.
The 150-year-old standard has served our country well. Aides to former president George W. Bush agree, noting that it was Republicans after the Civil War who added the guarantee to the nation's charter as part of the 14th Amendment.
Those focused now on overturning it are ignoring voters' demands to create jobs and fix the economy.
Lashing out by the anti-immigrant crowd would be just a sideshow if it lacked the threat of federal power.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
“ANGELICA SALAS is board chair of the Californians for Humane Immigrant Rights Leadership and Action Fund. She wrote this article for this newspaper.”
So she’s a self-interested opinion writer. Yawn.
To a lib, there is nothing illegal when it comes to their power.....
This is insane.
My parents immigrated from Mussolini’s Italy.
They were glad to be here! The only thing this country ever did to offend them was to allow communists and illegal aliens to go unpunished.
I heard about a fellow known to my family back in Italy who was working on an Italian cruise ship, back in the 1950s. He jumped ship and hid out here in the States. His own relatives reported him to the Immigration authorities. He was deported immediately and decreed “Personna non grata”.
All the Italian immigrants I know worked hard and waited long years to enter the U.S. They did not want to see their sacrifices diluted by scofflaws.
Ms. Salas, and so many of our politicians, ignore — conveniently — that clause in the 14th Amendment that says “...and subject to the jurisdiction....” Kids born to illegals do not meet that criterion. By Ms. Salas’ logic, she would argue that the child of a pregnant nurse, who is part of an invading foreign force, and who gives birth to that child while she is part of that invasion, would be an automatic U.S. citizen. Bullshit.
Mexicans don’t think our immigration laws apply to them.
Comment +1
“Two recently re-elected Northern California congressmen, Dan Lungren and Tom McClintock, announced last month that they will join a quest to change the U.S. Constitution to deny citizenship to babies born on American soil”
What is interesting here is that this is not a change to the U.S. Constitution. The 14th Amendment states that it is unconstitutional to “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Why would any citizen of a foreign country (an illegal alien) be subject to the political jurisdiction of the United States?
Bla bla bla
They always sound the same.....like a broken record using the same arguments, the same appeals to emotions, the same.........
It sounds as though the bimbo is saying that an illegal alien invader is the same thing as a legal immigrant. What a fruitcake.
So where does this “organization” get its funding and what is Salas’ compensation?
Aside from her own racist self interest, let’s see what other self interests she has in evaluating her “objectivity”
“Aides to former president George W. Bush agree...”
Proof that it doesn’t work. It is interesting, though, to see the far left nutcases cite George W. Bush as their hero.
Yes, it was republicans who added the words in order to protect the very black people who now vote 90% democrat.
The Constitution does not need to be "changed". It only needs to be read by people with the ability to understand what they are reading.
Not true.
They only want to correct the misapplication of the 14th Ammendment and deny citizenship to babies born here whose parents are not citizens.
BIG DIFFERENCE!
I don’t think I’m wrong when I think that the rights of illegal aliens was considered in the least by the framers of the 14th Amendment.
Wasn’t the purpose of the article to make perfectly clear the rights of freed slaves who were already here?
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