Sunday, October 17, 2010

Slide Show: The GOP's Worst Ideas | The Nation

RNC Chairman Michael Steele speaks during a Republican National Committee get-out-the vote rally in Anaheim, California on October 16, 2010. Former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and Steele held the rally to raise money for the RNC. Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and Senate candidate Carly Fiorina were not among Palin's so-called Mama Grizzlies on hand for the rally.  UPI/Jim Ruymen Photo via Newscom

Slide Show: The GOP's Worst Ideas | The Nation: "Kris Kobach, the Republican candidate for Kansas’s Secretary of State, has joined Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce’s push to deny American citizenship to children born in the US of undocumented parents. Republicans are divided on this issue, but candidates such as Kobach think that targeting “anchor babies” will stymie the “immigrant invasion” far-right candidates have been decrying throughout this election season. The problem is, as Robin Templeton points out in “Baby Baiting,” Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment clearly states that 'all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”"

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