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Sunday, January 6th, 2013

Conservatives Open New Congress With Unconstitutional Bill To End Birthright Citizenship

Author:     IAN MILLHISER
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     Jan 5, 2013 at 2:54 pm
 Link: Conservatives Open New Congress With Unconstitutional Bill To End Birthright Citizenship
Stephan:   Here is yet another way conservatives seek to rig the election process. There are so many fronts to this war that I think most of the corporate media see only the individual trees, and not the forest, the collective enterprise. All of this is a concerted carefully planned, and well-financed decades long attempt by the uber-rich, and their corporate structures, using principally the vehicle of the Republican Party to take over the United States. It is a kind of slow-motion fascist coup.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution expressly provides that nearly anyone born in the United States is a citizen, regardless of the immigration status of their parents. Yet, despite the Constitution’s clear command, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) wants to ignore our founding document and prevent the children of undocumented immigrants from becoming citizens:

It’s the first week of the 113th Congress, and one House member is already trying to stop children born in the United States to undocumented parents – whom he calls ‘anchor babies

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