Lindsey Graham: Birthright Citizenship Is A Mistake (VIDEO)

Yeah, because those children, anchor babies if you will, are incapable of becoming loyal Americans in the future.

What? America used to believe in the self determination of individuals? Regardless of their origin?

Not according to Butters and the rest of the hard right.

Nothing new here. Just another Republican tossing the U S Constitution under the bus.

So every time someone overstays their student visa and has a kid with a US citizen, that child will be subject to deportation for their entire life? Or only if both parents are illegal aliens? So hospitals will have to inquire into the immigration status of every expectant family to ensure they don't accidentally get a SSN for the bundle of joy.

This proposal is so stupid - but at least Lindsey wants to do it through an amendment, thus all but ensuring it won't pass.

Next thing you know he'll hate gays.

Do you suppose the debate will ever focus on "why" people choose to have their children have citizenship in a country other than theirs?

Could it be that theirs is so messed up, they want better for their children? Isn't that what we all want, the best for our children?

Why is it that we want so badly to keep others from having what we have, when what we have was simply because of an accident of birth? Do you know how fortunate that makes us? Do you have even an ounce of compassion for those who just happened to be born to a poor woman in another part of the world? To those who much is given, much is expected...

I find it especially appropriate for a Senator from South Carolina to propose a change to the amendment that gave slaves citizenship.

BTW, suppose you are the child of two non-citizens forcibly taken into this country? Citizen or no?

This is Sweet!! First, most center-right republicans feel exactly the same way. However, this requires 'tinkering' with the constitution, and we all know how much they want to honor the original intent of the Founding (genuflect and shout 'all hail')Fathers. So this puts them somewhat of a unique position: it is bad..BaD...BAD...for the central government to even THINK about something other than what the Founders actually 'writ'...unless of course it pertains to minorities. If Tancredo, or his ilk, had spun this out it would have been immediately discounted as the rantings of a loon. Squishy RINO Graham, on the other hand, puts this squarely in the middle of the prospective Repub playbook where all must take a stand.

This will never happen.

I agree with Lindsey! Now, which Native American tribe or council decides whose parents are here legally?

In 1968, the GOP Vice Presidential candidate was the son of an un-naturalized immigrant. At the time, the GOP mantra was "What a great country, where the son of an immigrant can run for one of the highest offices in the land."

So, it was OK for Spiro Agnew to be a benefactor of the 14th amendment, but its now suddenly wrong for anyone else to benefit.

I loath the GOP and the RWNJs for their hypocrisy.

On the one hand, I think AZ 1070 is a right-wing, un-American proposal. Furthermore, the first feeling I have towards illegal immigrants is compassion. I also support amnesty and a path to earned citizenship for the millions of illegals who are in the U.S. now. Nevertheless, I think Graham's proposal is worth considering. As an environmentalist who lives half the year in Arizona, I would say that the state is already way over its capacity to sustain good quality human life while protecting what's left of our wildlife and natural beauty. When we have newborn American citizens whose parents are non-citizens,endless problems and heartbreaks will will ensue.

So the child is a U.S. citizen, I don't see where that confers any rights on the child's parents. Upon deportation, they have a choice: take the child along, or put the child up for adoption by legal residents.

Just goes to show further that NOTHING is as important to the clowns in Washington as getting and becoming more powerful.
We have elected the scum of this nation repeatably into power so that now... they are actually changing our entire social structure and laying waste to our heritage.
There have always been dissenters, racists, folk who would throw away scruples and values and allow the ends to justify the means, but in this point of time, the members of BOTH parties, although espousing different views, are striving toward the same end... destruction of our nation as a whole.

When our officials from BOTH mobs can condone and promote illegal wars and torture while blaming each other...
When both mobs can blame each other for the destruction of our financial system while at the same time being a party to it...
When both parties can support our increased military offensives, yet espouse peace...
When BOTH mobs have allowed our health care system to run amok and health care to deteriorate for their own personal gain...
When BOTH mobs refuse to limit their power or that of the executive because they may desire to abuse that power themselves...

We now have two parties... each which has refused to protect us from the "bad guys"... each which has refused to enforce border and immigration laws... each of which has neglected to promote honesty , integrity , and ethics by their own actions... each of which have invaded innocent nations without cause...
And we the voters and commoners are angry and disappointed that these two mobs which we continue to elect and reelect are not acting the way we think they should...
Currently, though, the rate we are disintegrating appears to be alarming... IMHO

We must destroy the Constitution ...in order to save it.

...deport a gay Latino baby for Jebus!

Jack

Oh come on. You know the real problem is that it's brown people coming over here and having babies. If it was white people there would be no controversy over it.

I'm not exactly sure where i stand on this issue but the argument (at least in these comments) is being argued better by those who oppose it. There seems to be a lack of cogent reasoning for those that want to maintain jus soli. Really the only rational arguments have been from people that lean towards overturning it. Those in favor of jus soli have produced a rather weak list:

- Some dismiss it because of the messenger ... "Yes it is crazy when the person pushing the "debate" belongs to the party ..."(certainly L.G. is a sorry excuse for a human and may be hypocritical for a member of the GOP to suggest a constitutional amendment - but it doesn't defeat the idea outright.)
- Some are anti-change ... "its now suddenly wrong for anyone else to benefit." (as if things don't change or should not if it were appropriate)
- Some find it outright racist though ... "it's specifically targeting a particular demographic" (There is in fact little evidence to insinuate this beside one's own paranoia?)
- Some claim that it mirrors Nazi Germany ... "Just replace the Jews with the illegal immigrants ...." (this is TOO stupid to refute)
- Some use trite sayings ... "Give me your tired, your poor ..." (as if a slogan should dictate contemporary policy)

SERIOUSLY can someone outline a few good reasons why it makes sense to keep it in place? I am trying to understand where I stand on this and I would like to hear other ideas.

Graham... another Repub style "strict constructionist".

Why does Lindsay Graham hate the Constitution?

And why do all the Constitutional purists in the Teabaggery party (most of whom have never read the Constitution, or lack the ability to understand it) support a repeal of a Constitutionally mandated birthright citizenship?

Why, Oh why?

Republicans!

They want to allow people who weren't born here to be eligible to run for president (John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger) but they want to deny people who were actually born here their rightful citizenship.

Methinks the Lindsey doth protest too much.

Well, he might as well go all the way and rescind the citizenship
of all except the native indians, cause everyone effing one else is a "birthright baby."

Yes, I can think of nothing that will make our society safer, more humane and prosperous than engineering things so that we create a population of stateless people living amongst us.

Lindsey, Lindsey, Lindsey, skipping down the street in his summer linens. What a sweet boy.