When It's Racist, Say So

That truth defies Paul’s position is incontrovertible. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution says it plainly: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” That’s the same Constitution that conservative extremists now want back. Well, in their own words: “Read the law.”

And before we get any crazy Internet-inspired legal interpretations of the word “jurisdiction,” the Supreme Court laid this to rest way back in 1898 when ugly laws were trying to keep Chinese immigrants out of our country. In U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark the Supreme Court found that no state or Congress can make any law that denies the rights of citizenship to someone born here based on their parents’ country of origin.

This is yet another of the backward-looking wedge issues pushed by conservative extremists, including 90 House Republicans who co-sponsored last year legislation that seeks to rewrite the Constitution by denying citizenship to children born in the United States.

The time has come for every republican running for office to show their DNA results because that is the only way to keep their party pure.