Constitutional Confusion at Penn/Annenberg

Accuracy in Academia ^ | September 21, 2017 | Malcolm A. Kline

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Last summer the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APCC) at Penn elected to test Americans’ Constitutional awareness but may have contributed to historical misconceptions in the process.

"More than half of Americans (53 percent) incorrectly think it is accurate to say that immigrants who are here illegally do not have any rights under the U.S. Constitution," the Annenberg Center claims. Yet and still, when they elaborate on that finding, they have to qualify it by using Supreme Court rulings because the original Constitution and Bill of Rights are so clearly geared towards American citizens:

"The APPC survey, conducted Aug. 9-13 among 1,013 adults in the United States, finds that 53 percent think that people who are here illegally do not have any rights under the Constitution. That incorrect belief is especially strong among self-identified political conservatives -- 67 percent think it is accurate, compared with 48 percent of moderates and 46 percent of liberals."

“In fact, immigrants who are in the United States illegally share some constitutional protections with U.S. citizens. More than a century ago, in Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886), a case involving a Chinese immigrant, the Supreme Court ruled that non-citizens were entitled to due process rights under the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. Other cases have expanded upon those rights."

Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia. He can be reached at mal.kline@academia.org.

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When Obama was an IL US Senator, he and William Ayers managed to take over Anneberg . Through that fund they managed to fund lefty causes involved in Illinois and Chicago Public schools.

Stanley Kurtz wrote an expose about this and appeared on a local talk show hosted by WGN’s Milton Freeman . Radicals attempted to shut the show down by flooding the hosts phone call in line and protests outside the studio.

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