GOP Going After Birthright Citizenship

Oh geez, one of the cornerstones of the American way of life — birthright citizenship, that crazy thing the government did way back in 1868 via the 14th Amendment after that whole, you know, slavery thing — is on the chopping block. Or, at least, that’s what Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa wants.

As King is the incoming chairman of the subcommittee that oversees immigration, he is set to push for denying birthright citizenship to the children of “illegals.” And I’m not even going to get into all the problems places like France and Germany have by denying birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants.

The most important thing for us to remember in this “debate” is that it’s not really a debate. Lawmakers that want to redefine citizenship are after power, and they don’t want to share it with the rest of us. Rather, people like King are trying to define what the U.S. will look like in the future, unfortunately, it’s too late for that. So, they insult our intelligence by coming up with lame excuses for logic like this:

“While opponents say King’s bill would clearly be unconstitutional, backers say the 14th Amendment would not apply. The amendment states that anyone born in the United States and ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ is a citizen. King said the amendment would not apply to the children of illegal immigrants because their parents should not be in the country anyway.”

I’m not a genius or anything, but that’s like saying that because people aren’t supposed to drive drunk you can’t arrest them for doing it. Hardly logical, ey? I wish they would stop insulting our collective intelligence with these “arguments” and just come out and say it: We don’t want anymore brown babies in this country. King and his cronies are just mad that about 8% of the babies born in 2008 were the children of immigrants without papers (according to the Pew Hispanic Center, anyway).

Well, I’ve got some sad news for King and others like him, come Census time, there’s not going to be a darn thing you can do about all the brown babies that are already here — so you’d better find more effective ways to disenfranchise people.