This seems to becoming an issue – and the left appears to be gleefully latching on to it on the theory that they can paint conservatives as racist over it: modify the 14th Amendment in order to prevent the children of illegal immigrants from obtaining automatic American citizenship. It all stems from this:
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…
This amendment, ratified in 1868, was designed to prevent any State from denying citizenship to any freed slaves, or their children. It was a wise and necessary amendment – but it also does need to be modified.
Back when it was enacted, it took a couple weeks to get from Europe to the United States – longer to get from any other overseas area. And even traveling 50 miles to the United States from inside Mexico was an arduous, lengthy and expensive task – especially for any woman who was expecting a child. So, the problem of illegal immigrants giving birth in the United States simply wasn’t even a problem. Heck, it wasn’t even a concept.
Times have changed. You can get to the United States from pretty much anywhere in the world within 24 hours – and in great comfort and with readily accessible medical care along the way. There is just no bar to coming here – as long as you don’t get caught at the border (and most don’t), your only problem is deciding just where to have the baby inside the United States. And, once born, that child is an American citizen – no doubt about it and fully within the protections of the United States constitution.
What we are seeing because of this is a rising number of women coming to the United States for the express purpose of giving birth here. Their child is thus an American and eligible for all aid any other American child can obtain – and, of course, having an American citizen child makes it more likely you’ll be able to stay in country, should the authorities ever question your residency status. This is not what the 14th amendment was intended to do – it was intended to secure basic rights, it has become a vehicle for special privileges.
The logical thing to do is change it like so:
All persons born to at least one citizen of the United States 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…
Neat and simple and solves the problem. Enact this, and women who are pregnant will stop coming because there will be no purpose in doing so.
Our liberals, of course, will still try to play this as racist. Their plan would be to make the concept so hateful that GOPers would run screaming away from it and liberals would reap the electoral benefit. It wouldn’t, however, work out that way – this will be another one of those things of late (like the Arizona law) where once people learn the provisions, support for it will be overwhelming. Liberals try to play the race card on this and it will blow right up in their faces.
What this debate will do is firmly illustrate just how deformed our political debate has become. Rather than seeing an issue and coming to a swift and rational resolution of same, everything has to be ground up in the liberal propaganda machine. We can’t just argue about things – liberals insist that hatred and division be sown and that all problems become a crisis. Fortunately, the liberal MO is rapidly running out of steam – as more and more people realize just what liberalism has been up to, the more likely it becomes that liberalism will suffer a crushing defeat at the polls.
And that is what needs to happen. In order to start America on the path to recovery, it is required that liberalism be crushed. Liberalism has become a problem – and the major problem, because unless liberalism is out of the way, no other problems can be resolved. Issues like this will play in to the destruction of liberalism, and so we should press them with full vigor.
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