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Constitutional Amendments and Citizenship Rights

Brion4 Wrote: Aug 11, 2010 1:44 PM

Lindsay Graham is creating a distraction (deliberately) to the main issue of illegal immigration. He favors immigration amnesty so he trots out a straw man ammendment idea and all you ADD debilitated squirrel watchers automatically fall allover yourselves debating the ammendment process. The big fact overriding all others is that if the borders are controlled correctly, WE can decide who gets in and who has to stay home until their baby is born. To make it simple: No illegal aliens...No anchor baby problem. FOCUS PEOPLE! FOCUS.

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ALX55 Wrote: Aug 11, 2010 1:51 PM

He's talking tough knowing full well he doesn't have a snowballs chance in Hades of getting the Constitution amended.

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Constitutional Amendments and Citizenship Rights

It's like clockwork. Whenever conservatives propose a constitutional amendment, progressives suddenly rediscover the delicate gears of the Constitution and the horrible dangers of "tinkering" or "tampering" with its precision craftsmanship. Consider the sudden brouhaha over the idea of revising the 14th Amendment to get rid of automatic birthright citizenship (which would make us more like that alleged progressive nirvana known as "Europe," by the way). Here's Angela Kelley of the liberal Center for American Progress on Sen. Lindsey Graham, who started the amendment chatter: "He's not one to tamper with the Constitution, so I'm surprised he would even suggest this."...

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