re: #95 sagehen

What a great op-ed; the ending is just beautiful

They enshrined the 14th Amendment into our Constitution so our future could be better than the horrors and hatreds of our past.

We haven’t arrived at that future yet. But as long as we choose to see it, there on the horizon it will be — like the promise of a “more perfect Union” itself — beckoning us forward.

Our Constitutional Forefathers had no idea of the concept of passports, undocumented immigration or naturalization: anyone who made it to America and established themselves there was welcome as a citizen.

I would not be opposed to amending the Constitution to restrict birthright citizenship to the children of legal resident aliens. That has been the case in Germany since 2000. But that does not mean that I at all agree with Anton’s arguments for abolishing birthright citizenship.