Righties worried about ''anchor baby'' citizenship now want two kinds of birth certificates?

[yurbud]

Reading a Yahoo Article on the right's attack on the 14th Amendment, I stumbled across this paragraph:

A movement is underfoot that seeks to create two types of birth certificates: those for American citizens who qualify for birthright citizenship and those for so-called 'anchor babies:' the children born of illegal immigrant parents.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110106/pl_ac/7538420_anchor_babies_or_birthright_citizenship_a_closer_look_at_the_14th_amendment

Maybe they will only require these second class citizens to put air quotes around the word ''citizen'' when they tell the GOP racial purity police their status.

Or maybe they will get counted as three-fifths of a person in the census, get three-fifths of a vote, and most important for the GOP, three-fifths of minimum wage and labor law protection.

(You have to wonder if the GOPers in the House didn't tear up when they were reading that part of the Constitution, and one of them didn't cough ''>original intent!< COUGH! >should kept it!< COUGH!''

The bright side of this is the GOP will finish their task of alienating every Latino voter, and remind a lot of blacks why they never considered the GOP in the first place.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Just a very small historic gripe

African Americans VOTED GOP, SOLIDLY until about the 1950s.

You may want to remember that it was the Southern Dixiecrats that ABANDONED the Democratic Party after the Civil Rights act, and it wasn't accidental.

[yurbud]

2. you mean Abe Lincoln was a REPUBLICAN? Next I suppose you'll tell me the Civil Rights Act of 1964

was signed by a Southern Democrat President.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yes and BECAUSE of Abe, African Americans

were very reliable voting block for the REPUBLICAN party for pretty much the first 100 years or so. Well 80 for people who got the right to vote after the civil war

[yurbud]

6. if the Democrats take blacks, labor unions, and the middle class as a whole for granted the way

the GOP did blacks for that century, they could lose blacks and the rest of us the way the GOP did.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. That is precisely the lesson of the story

The other is that both parties have done already one full switcharoo... where they became mirror images of each other...

[Renew Deal]

3. I want someone to come in this thread and tell us there's no difference between the two parties.

I'll be waiting.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. The Republicans are having a lot of trouble

with this issue. The well-to-do want to be able to exploit the labor of immigrants, whether it's in their businesses or doing their household chores. However, a big part of their voting base doesn't want it because they are racist and/or don't want the competition for jobs. To appease both sides, they need to allow the immigrants to come in without granting them citizenship.....or they could have first, second, and third degree citizenship based on how much money a person has. They always find a way.

[yurbud]

7. that's a good analysis.

[Initech]

8. The racists and xenophobes are coming out of the woodwork.

It's gonna be incredibly difficult for the teabaggers and birthers to prove they're not a racist movement.

[hunter]

9. They wanted two kinds of birth certificates, "white" and "colored..."

... but then they realized that would be too obvious.

[Goblinmonger]

11. Did the Repubs use the phrase "birthright citizenship"?

Because if they did, they are bigger morans than I thought. Perhaps it is too much to expect them to know the difference between jus soli and jus sanguinis. Fucking idiots.

[yurbud]

12. one good thing about the GOP: whenever they get in power, we learn about a new part of Constitution

because they try to destroy it.

During the Bush years, it was the Fourth Amendment and definition of presidential powers.

Now they aim to destroy the Fourteenth Amendment.