Dirtylicious wrote:
...should make it retroactive 400 years...
Doesn't this cartoon help to support the narrative that "Mexicans are taking over" or that "Latinos are invading." If the fate of people who accept "anchor babies" is that of the Native Americans, that might be the most persuasive argument for strict anti immigration laws.
Luckily, virtually all Latinos and other immigrants, who come here, are coming here with the same intentions as The Pilgrims or the Conquistadors, I believe that even the very poor and unskilled immigrants add to our nation's private sector economy (they are likely to be a net negative on the public sector but that is more a symptom undisciplined State governments and Federal Entitlements that are unsound).
Considering how wily the Congressmen and the Courts, often though not exclusively on the left, can be at "interpreting" away Constitutional rights, property rights, individual rights and protections and limits on state power, it a little absurd for some leftists to oppose this on Constitutional grounds. Nonetheless, the way the language is written is seems like most jurists would find state laws that deny citizenship to anyone born in this country to be unconstitutional.