If a group of Republican lawmakers succeeds in its foolishly misguided endeavors, children of illegal immigrants might as well just put “Limbo” on their birth certificates.
The group of lawmakers from 15 states wants to sort of toss out that unimportant 14th Amendment that unambiguously says “all persons born or naturalized in the United States ... are citizens of the United States and of the state they reside.”
Except for those children who had no choice but to have the unfortunate circumstance of being born to immigrants who immigrated to the land of opportunity. No, these kids should rethink their constitutional rights.
This group of lawmaker’s logic, if we can even call it such without tarnishing the very meaning of that word, is nonexistent. If a child is born in New Hampshire to villainous Canadian border jumpers, he or she simply cannot be anything but an American citizen both by ordinary logic and legislation.
To say interpreting the 14th Amendment, originally designed to provide citizenship for former slaves, is to mar the legacy of black people in this country is a great folly in many regards. First, it is to say a great majority of black people actually want to remember the fact the country they are so seemingly proud of once forced them into enslavement. We hardly call this a legacy. And secondly, it is to explicitly deny a child the chance of reaching the true American dream.
The thought of reinterpreting the Constitution is not a radical idea. But the thought of reinterpreting to favor illogical xenophobia is, indeed, radical and shameful.
