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Before voting in this poll, we are going to take a look at Arizona, and the desires of the citizens of that state to clamp down on illegal immigration, which is a huge problem. Draconian or not, the new law in Arizona, which the Obama administration is challenging in court, reflects the views of a lot of Americans, who feel that there is a loophole in the Constitution, which is rewarding illegal aliens for their illegal activity.
Now the problem:
62% of Americans say leave the Constitution alone.
BUT.......
64% of Americans say that children born to illegal aliens should not be citizens.
So, you can see that it is not only Arizonans who are pissed here. America is, or at least the majority of Americans are. That is leading to a crisis of sorts. Do we uphold the Constitution, or do we ignore part of it, claiming a greater good in doing so?
Now answer the poll. And for the record, I do not like the fact that kids of illegal aliens are automatically citizens, but the thought of gutting part of the Constitution is more abhorrent to me. No child of an illegal alien should be a citizen, IMHO, but the only way to implement this is through the law, that is, enact another amendment to the Constitution. If we do not change the law through legal means, then the Constitution is nothing, and we might as well give it away to someone else, and be done with it. Yes, problems with the Constitution arise from time to time, but for more than 200 years, it has upheld our freedoms, and gutting any part of it, even for what might be a greater good, could easily lead us down a slippery slope that might have us one day wondering what one of the greatest documents ever written was all about, instead of revering it as the law of the land.
Constitutional convention, anyone? That I am for. Otherwise, as repugnant as the idea of the children of illegal aliens being citizens is, I will have to be for it, rather than gut what has held America together for the last couple of centuries.
Amendment now, and only amendment!! Anything else is only a way out for the intellectually lazy, and if we do go down that other road, then the Constitution is something that we no longer deserve, and we might as well throw it in the garbage, along with another quaint idea, known as freedom.
Now the problem:
62% of Americans say leave the Constitution alone.
BUT.......
64% of Americans say that children born to illegal aliens should not be citizens.
So, you can see that it is not only Arizonans who are pissed here. America is, or at least the majority of Americans are. That is leading to a crisis of sorts. Do we uphold the Constitution, or do we ignore part of it, claiming a greater good in doing so?
Now answer the poll. And for the record, I do not like the fact that kids of illegal aliens are automatically citizens, but the thought of gutting part of the Constitution is more abhorrent to me. No child of an illegal alien should be a citizen, IMHO, but the only way to implement this is through the law, that is, enact another amendment to the Constitution. If we do not change the law through legal means, then the Constitution is nothing, and we might as well give it away to someone else, and be done with it. Yes, problems with the Constitution arise from time to time, but for more than 200 years, it has upheld our freedoms, and gutting any part of it, even for what might be a greater good, could easily lead us down a slippery slope that might have us one day wondering what one of the greatest documents ever written was all about, instead of revering it as the law of the land.
Constitutional convention, anyone? That I am for. Otherwise, as repugnant as the idea of the children of illegal aliens being citizens is, I will have to be for it, rather than gut what has held America together for the last couple of centuries.
Amendment now, and only amendment!! Anything else is only a way out for the intellectually lazy, and if we do go down that other road, then the Constitution is something that we no longer deserve, and we might as well throw it in the garbage, along with another quaint idea, known as freedom.