Anchors ( babies) Aweigh, my boys

[thundley4]

babylonsister   (1000+ posts)             Wed Aug-11-10 02:43 PM
Original message
Public evenly split on changing 14th amendment?
   
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/08/publ...


Public evenly split on changing 14th amendment?

An amazing finding, just in from CNN:

As you may know, the Constitution says that all children born in the United States are automatically U.S. citizens regardless of their parents' status. Would you favor or oppose a Constitutional amendment to prevent children born here from becoming U.S. citizens unless their parents are also U.S. citizens?

Favor 49%

Oppose 51%

No opinion 1%


The public is just about evenly split on whether to repeal birthright citizenship. Hey, what's another Constitutional amendment between friends, anyway?

Perhaps this reflects frustration with the government's failure to solve the illegal immigration problem. Or perhaps the decision by some GOP officials to openly flirt with changing the 14th amendment is succeeding in legitimizing the idea. Or maybe both those factors are combining to produce a toxic result: The mainstreaming of ideas that by any measure should be dismissed as extreme by public officials and voters alike.

Oh, one other result in the poll: A solid majority, 60 percent, favors the $26 billion in aid for teachers. A majority of independents, 57 percent, also favors it. Only Republicans oppose it.

By Greg Sargent

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8925875

DJ13 (1000+ posts)           Wed Aug-11-10 02:45 PM
Response to Original message
1. Supporting illegal immigration is a losing strategy with many voters
   
I dont know why that isnt acknowledged by our party, but its true.

It's supporting future criminal dem voters.

vi5 (1000+ posts)         Wed Aug-11-10 02:50 PM
Response to Reply #1
6. So the 14th amendment was put into place in 1868...
   
..to support illegal immigration?

Really? That's what it's about?

According to the left, yes.

mmonk   (1000+ posts)             Wed Aug-11-10 03:01 PM
Response to Reply #1
16. Who supports illegal immigration?

Obama and his DOJ, for starters.

[miskie]

I love the way the "Living Document" people are all hard-core Libertarians now when it comes to their view of The Constitution.

[Ballygrl]

No reference at all to Canada and not allowing citizenship to illegal babies born there?

[Tucker]

[AllosaursRus]

I've always never understood how anyone can become a citizen by another party committing an illegal act.