Namely their hope is to remove the concept of automatic birthright citizenship (that everyone born in U.S. territory is automatically a citizen), a right as old as the country itself, to disenfranchise the children of immigrants (they may say only "undocumented immigrants," but given their history of voter suppression I suspect this goes beyond that.) Or, as this article puts it: "Republicans Gear Up to Challenge the Constitutionality of the Constitution." Read the article and weep. I certainly did.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
And Now For Something Completely Different...
Not so much a case of seeing the violence inherent in the system, as a Republican attempt to turn a non-violent part of the system, the good old 14th Amendment to the Constitution (the one that provides for "equal protection" and "due process" and stuff like that) into a violent one that denies people equal rights...
Namely their hope is to remove the concept of automatic birthright citizenship (that everyone born in U.S. territory is automatically a citizen), a right as old as the country itself, to disenfranchise the children of immigrants (they may say only "undocumented immigrants," but given their history of voter suppression I suspect this goes beyond that.) Or, as this article puts it: "Republicans Gear Up to Challenge the Constitutionality of the Constitution." Read the article and weep. I certainly did.
Namely their hope is to remove the concept of automatic birthright citizenship (that everyone born in U.S. territory is automatically a citizen), a right as old as the country itself, to disenfranchise the children of immigrants (they may say only "undocumented immigrants," but given their history of voter suppression I suspect this goes beyond that.) Or, as this article puts it: "Republicans Gear Up to Challenge the Constitutionality of the Constitution." Read the article and weep. I certainly did.
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