Alan Keyes

Alan Keyes: Lindsey Graham's Calls To Scrap Birthright Citizenship Are Too Crazy For Me (VIDEO)

Evan McMorris-Santoro | August 4, 2010, 2:37PM

Alan Keyes

Here's something you don't hear very often: a prominent Republican's policy position is too conservative for Alan Keyes. Speaking at a Tea Party Express-sponsored event in Washington this morning, Keyes said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is being irresponsible by suggesting, as he did recently, that the 14th Amendment may have been a bad idea.

Graham told Fox News that he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment that would remove automatic birthright citizenship for all babies born in the United States, even if their parents are here illegally. Graham and other Republicans have been whipping up opposition to the 14th Amendment, which they say encourages illegal immigrants to come to America with the plan to have babies who will automatically become U.S. citizens.

Keyes suggested that he shared the concern over so-called "anchor babies" with Graham and his allies, but he said that "the 14th Amendment is not the problem." Rather, he seemed to suggest, it's a mistaken interpretation of the amendment that's at fault. Changing the wording of the amendment would be a mistake, Keyes said -- and talk like Graham's is downright dangerous.

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Alan Keyes Coming To Tea Party Express' Rescue To Prove It's Not Racist

Evan McMorris-Santoro | August 3, 2010, 10:07AM

Former IL Sen. candidate Alan Keyes (R)

The tea party movement's Not Racist Week continues tomorrow with a "National Black Conservatives Rally" in Washington on behalf of the group nearly everyone in the movement agrees went too far on the issue of race, the Tea Party Express. More than a dozen African American conservatives will pack the National Press Club to attack the NAACP and set the record straight about what the press release for the event calls "the unrelenting attacks on the tea party movement" and the "effort to dissuade Americans from rebelling at the ballot box in the November 2010 elections."

The keynote speaker at the event will be perhaps the most prominent African American conservative, Alan Keyes. He'll be joined by the Tea Party Express' national spokesperson, Lloyd Marcus.

Marcus pointed to the extensive lineup of black conservatives on deck for tomorrow's event as evidence that the movement is more racially open than some critics have painted it.

"Apparently the NAACP and other groups are afraid to acknowledge the fact that the tea party welcomes people of all races, and is a much bigger and more diverse group than they're willing to admit," Marcus said in a statement.

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