Yesterday's rant focused on the non-sense of one overzealous Republican State Senator from Arizona attempting to punish American Citizens who are born in America, but whose parents are illegal aliens.
Senator Pearce is not alone in his thinking. He has a lot of company in the extreme right wing of society, company in the form of members of Congress. H.R. 1868, the BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ACT OF 2009 seeks to amend § 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify those classes of individuals born in the United States who are nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.
Under the H.R. 1868 a child born in America must have at least one American parent, or a parent who is an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States, or an alien performing active duty in the armed services of the United States.
H.R. 1868 was introduced by Republican Nathan Deal from Georgia's 9th District.
The bill currently has 91 co-sponsors, they are:
Republican Todd W. Akin of Missouri's 2nd District
Republican Spencer Bachus Spencer of Alabama's 6th District
Republican Roscoe G. Bartlett of Maryland's 6th District
Republican Gus M. Bilirakis of Florida's 9th District
Republican John Boozman of Arkansas' 3rd District
Republican Paul C. Broun of Georgia's 10th District
Republican Michael C. Burgess of Texas' 26th District
Republican Ken Calvert of California's 44th District
Republican John R. Carter of Texas' 31st District
Republican Howard Coble of North Carolina's 6th District
Republican Michael K Conaway of Texas' 11th District
Republican Geoff Davis of Kentucky's 4th District
Republican John Fleming of Louisiana's 4th District
Republican Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska's 1st District
Republican Trent Franks of Arizona's 2nd District
Republican Phil Gingrey of Georgia's 11th District
Republican Bob Goodlatte of Virginia's 6th District
Republican Parker Griffith of Alabama's 5th District
Republican Dean Heller of Nevada's 2nd District
Republican Wally Herger of California's 2nd District
Republican Darrell E. Issa of California's 49th District
Republican Walter B. Jones, Jr. of North Carolina's 3rd District
Republican Peter T, King of New York's 3rd District
Republican Jack Kingston of Georgia's 1st District
Republican Doug Lamborn of Colorado's 5th District
Republican Daniel E. Lungren of California's 3rd District
Republican Kenny Marchant of Texas' 24th District
Republican Thaddeus G. McCotter of Michigan's 11th District
Republican John L Mica of Florida's 7th District
Republican Gary G. Miller of California's 42nd District
Republican Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania's 18th District
Republican Rand Neugebauer of Texas' 19th District
Republican Mike Pence of Indiana's 6th District
Representative Todd Russell Platts of Pennsylvania's 19th District
Republican Bill Posey of Florida's 15th District
Republican Mike D. Rogers of Alabama's 3rd District
Republican Peter J. Roskam of Illinois' 6th District
Republican Pete Sessions of Texas' 32nd District
Republican Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania's 9th District
Republican Lamar Smith of Texas' 21st District
Republican Cliff Stearns of Florida's 6th District
Democrat Gene Taylor of Mississippi's 4th District
Republican Fred Upton of Michigan's 6th District
Republican Zach Wamp of Tennessee's 3rd District
Republican Ed Whitfield of Kentucky's 1st District
Republican Robert J. Wittman of Virginia's 1st District
Republican Rodney Alexander of Louisiana's 5th District
Republican Gresham J. Barrett of South Carolina's 3rd District
Republican Brian P. Bilbray of California's 50th District
Republican Jo Bonner of Alabama's 1st District
Republican Kevin Brady of Texas' 8th District
Republican Henry E. Brown, Jr. of South Carolina's 1st District
Republican Dan Burton of Indiana's 5th District
Republican John Campbell of California's 48th District
Republican Jason Chaffetz of Utah's 3rd District
Republican Mike Coffman of Colorado's 6th District
Republican John J. Duncan, Jr. of Tennessee's 2nd District
Republican Randy J. Forbes of Virginia's 4th District
Republican Virginia Foxx of North Carolina's 5th District
Republican Scott Garrett of New Jersey's 5th District
Republican Louie Gohmert of Texas' 1st District
Republican Sam Graves of Missouri's 6th District
Republican Ralph M. Hall of Texas' 4th District
Republican Jeb Hensarling of Texas' 5th District
Republican Duncan D. Hunter of California's 52nd District
Republican Sam Johnson of Texas' 3rd District
Republican Jim Jordan of Ohio's 4th District
Republican Steve King of Iowa's 5th District
Republican John Kline of Minnesota's 2nd District
Republican John Linder of Georgia's 7th District
Republican Donald A. Manzullo of Illinois' 16th District
Republican Tom McClintock of California's 4th District
Republican Howard P. "Buck" McKeon of California's 25th District
Republican Candice S. Miller of Michigan's 10th District
Republican Jerry Moran of Kansas' 1st District
Republican Sue Wilkins Myrick of North Carolina's 9th District
Republican Pete Olson of Texas' 22nd District
Republican Joseph R. Pitts of Pennsylvania's 16th District
Republican Ted Poe of Texas' 2nd District
Republican Tom Price of Georgia's 6th District
Republican Dana Rohrabacher of California's 46th District
Republican Edward R. Royce of California's 40th District
Republican John B. Shadegg of Arizona's 3rd District
Republican Adrian Smith of Nebraska's 3rd District
Republican Mark E. Souder of Indiana's 3rd District
Republican John Sullivan of Oklahoma's 1st District
Republican Todd Tiahrt of Kansas' 4th District
Republican Greg Walden of Oregon's 2nd District
Republican Lynn A. Westmoreland of Georgia's 3rd District
Republican Joe Wilson of South Carolina's 2nd District
There are 92 Republicans and 1 Democrat willing to turn back the clock and pass a law designed to challenge the settled law of the land. Remember that in the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Court said that being born in America, jus soli, was sufficient to confer citizenship. In Wong Kim Ark the Court said that both the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27) makes the underlying position of H.R. 1868 untenable.
These racist Republicans are trying to dismantle the decision in Wong Kim Ark because that they don't comprehend that the statute enforced the Constitutional provision. A new statute which is clearly repugnant to the Constitution must also fail.
I get worried when I see Republicans starting to dismantle things. We all saw how well things went when they dismantled the regulatory framework that governed Wall Street. Gee, it was just like in the days before those reforms were instituted. Only this time it was a Great Recession instead of a Great Depression. And remember how the GOP along with Bush and Cheney went all deregulatory with the big oil companies? We have polluted the Gulf of Mexico with the fruit of their deregulations.
Now they want to tinker with the fundaments of freedom and liberty embodied in the Post Civil War Amendments. No thanks GOP, thanks alot, I think America wants to keep the freedom its got.
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