From Talking Points Memo:
A new CNN poll finds the public divided on whether the Constitution should be amended to end birthright citizenship. The survey of 1,009 adults reports that 49% favor changing the Constitution to prevent the children of non-citizens from gaining automatic citizenship when born in the United States, while 51% oppose such a change.
This news is as disturbing as the idea is idiotic. Nearly half of this country wants to abolish birthright citizenship, one of the core ideas upon which our nation was founded? Immigration has consistently brought new people and ideas that have shaped our very way of life. It is quintessentially American (and, one could argue, quintessentially human). Cloaking anti-immigrant bigotry behind hypocritical flag-waving is a slap in the face to the people and cultures that built this nation.
America needs fundamental changes, thats for sure. We carry with us some powerful, terrible legacies of slavery, indigenous massacres here and abroad, and the continued abuse of military might, to name a few. True patriots fight to end these disturbing aspects of our country that ultimately weaken us, not the strength and diversity through immigration that has always made us great.
