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Excerpted from “State lawmakers taking aim at amendment granting birthright citizenship” By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post Staff Writer, The Washington Post, Wednesday, January 5, 2011; 2:23 PM
[SIZE="+2"]I[/SIZE]n a move certain to escalate the legal tug of war over illegal immigration, state lawmakers from across the country announced Wednesday that they were launching a united effort to prevent the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to all children born in the United States, from applying to children of undocumented immigrants.
State lawmakers from Arizona, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Georgia and other states said they were taking aim at birthright citizenship and seeking to return the interpretation of the 14th Amendment to what they described as the original intent of its creators. …
Will the insanity never cease? Are there really this many state lawmakers so ignorant of the essentialness of 14th Amendment to preventing a subclass from forming in this country?