Last night in Washington, D.C., Kris Kobach and his cadre of lawmaking Republicans unveiled their master plan for an Illegal-Free America. They said they were launching an effort to deny citizenship to kids born in this country to undocumented parents.
Their argument is that the 14th Amendment should only apply to children who have at least one parent who is a permanent resident or citizen, not to everyone born in the United States, as it's presently worded.
Kobach told the Washington Post the plan: First, resurrect the concept of "state citizenship." Then deny it to the descendants of illegals.
Kobach said that in addition to creating state citizenship, the plan calls for segregated birth certificates. They plan to draw up a state compact, a measure that needs to be approved by Congress, not the president, in order to become enforceable. The compact would call for separate birth certificates for children with "state citizenship" and those without, allowing for status-at-a-glance.
Civil rights groups are calling the move racist against Latino immigrants, and they say there's
already an established precedent in place when it comes to the 14th
Amendment. (When the Constitution said everyone born in the United
States was a citizen of the United States, the Supreme Court found that it wasn't joking
around.)
But Kobach knows that there's a clause in the Constitution somewhere, damn it, written in Magic Ink, that says "except for illegals."
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The Supreme Court decision upholding the 14th Amendment specifically excludes certain groups, among them enemies of the United States. As the illegal immigrants are "enemies" in that their very presence here is in willful violation of the law, the benifits accrued to any children by being born here are forefeit. No need to pass a wing-nut "compact" or modify the Ammendment as it stands.
I see nothing racist against latinos, or of any ethnic group, by denying citizenship to illegals. If people of ANY group use legal means to come here, there wouldn't be a problem to start with.
What happens when Kansas, which is already facing a $500 billion budget shortfall, has to spend millions more defending any law that is drafted by Kobach? There are several instances of cases where Kobach authored laws have nearly bankrupted small towns and counties because of the immense cost of defending questionably consitutional legislation. Are the taxpayers of KS expected to just foot the bill for Kobach's witch-hunts? It has to make you wonder what kind of law school UMKC considers itself, when they staffed a guy like this for so many years...
I am wondering how the Mexican government defines the citizenship of a baby born to Mexican parents in another country. If the child is considered a Mexican citizen then shouldn't they take precedence in the matter of citizenship over the United States? If a baby is born to American parents in another country then that country can not choose for that baby to terminate its U.S. citizenship.
The last time someone was so obsessed with immigrants was during the Rise of the Third Reich. Before proceeding with any legislation regarding our national immigration policies, I think it would be a good thing to review history to identify any parallels and to avoid repeating it.
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