As part of the anti-immigration ramp up of the right, several politicians - including our friend Tom Tancredo - and some high profile commentators have discussed ending the 14th Amendment grant of citizenship to all individuals born on US soil. Here's the relevant section of the 14th Amendment:
Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The 14th amendment is kind of important you know - due process, equal protection, post slavery rights for black Americans - not an area where I want a regressive and hateful politician and his xenophobic fans to be tinkering. Or those activist judges.
According to the right, a significant problem are anchor babies:
Put simply, an anchor baby is the offspring of an illegal immigrant who, under current legal interpretation, becomes a U.S. citizen at birth and, in turn, is the means by which parents and relatives can also obtain citizenship for themselves by using the family reunification features of immigration law.
By now I'm sure you've guessed that our favorite, semi-hot, bat shit insane, la migra fantasizing, concentration camp loving, gal-pal, Michelle Malkin, has shared her thoughts on the grave danger we face from anchor babies.
During my book tour across the country for Invasion, this issue came up time and again. In the Southwest, everyone has a story of heavily pregnant women crossing the Mexican border to deliver their anchor babies." At East Coast hospitals, tales of South Korean "obstetric tourists" abound. (An estimated 5,000 South Korean anchor babies are born in the US every year). And, of course, there's a terrorism angle.
Ah, yes, the terrorism. We'll only have ourselves to blame if we ignore El Queda. In this instance, however, Malkin may actually know what she's talking about (miracles do happen?). Are you ready for this? Are you seated? Ok, turns out, Ms. Malkin is speaking from experience, yep, she's an anchor baby herself. Really, what more evidence do we need of the dangers of anchor babies. I applaud Ms. Malkin's courage for identifying how dangerous it is to allow people like herself unfettered access to citizenship.
Thank you , Michelle. Enjoy the Phillipines.
Thank you , Michelle. Enjoy the Phillipines.
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This kills me. Malkin, Tancredo, and similar fools are like people at a party who, after waiting in line and taking a heaping plate of food, close the doors and tell everyone else that there's no food left when in fact there's still plenty to go around. What's more, they then walk around for the rest of the night telling other guests that the lack of food is the fault of the people who were still in line, all the while thinking to themselves "those people couldn't have gotten food, because they would have taken more than their share just like me, and well, everyone is just like me". Or something like that.
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