An accurate description of the paranoia that underlies the GOP crusade on immigration:
Why the GOP really wants to alter the 14th Amendment
By Harold Meyerson
Wednesday, August 11, 2010; A17
As Lindsey Graham and his fellow Republicans explain it, their sudden turn against conferring citizenship on anyone born in the United States was prompted by the mortal threat of "anchor babies" -- the children of foreigners who scurry to the States just in time to give birth to U.S. citizens.
The Republican war on the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause is indeed directed at a mortal threat -- but not to the American nation. It is the threat that Latino voting poses to the Republican Party....
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
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