Let us consider the possibility that it’s not racially insensitive to want to redefine the requirements for citizenship in the 14th amendment. Let us also consider the historical context of the 14th amendment. There was open immigration in 1868, which means that there were no illegal immigrants.
The purpose of the amendment was to ensure that African Americans born in the United States were guaranteed the right of citizenship. It was commonly understood to be the case, as affirmed by Senator Jacob Howard in 1866:
Every person born within the …

As Obama completed his tour through five states yesterday, two contradicting themes were made clear: Democrats have accomplished a lot and Republicans have stopped them from doing anything.
Monday night Obama told a fundraiser in Holywood this:
“We have been able to deliver the most progressive legislative agenda — one that helps working families — not just in one generation, maybe two, maybe three.”
However, an LA Times article from this morning told a different (and more accurate) story with the headline, “Obama now blames poor job numbers on congressional inaction. …

I stress this point because it is relevant to the whole debate. There is no defense for illegal activity, only mitigating circumstances can lessen the degree of the infraction. These are best left to individual cases and their individual merits.

Remember that silly picture of Reagan’s ghost clapping for Palin? Well, we thought it would be funny to see equally crazy pictures so we made some! Here’s the first of many to come – feel free to copy as much as you’d like, it’s public domain.

The body of Rancher Rob Krentz and his dog were found shot to death on his ranch. Krentz, who always was good-natured and willing to help people, had called in that he had found an illegal alien at one of his watering holes and was assisting him. That was the last that was heard from him before his body was discovered.
Rob Krentz was a lifelong rancher in Southeastern Arizona, 12 miles north of the U.S./Mexico border and 25 miles northeast of the city of Douglas. He was the father of …

Cardinal Roger Mahony honestly makes me sick to my stomach. The fact that he even showed up to a pro-illegal
immigration rally in Los Angeles should raise an alarm with the average person. Then, he makes the egregious comparison to Nazi Germany as reported in the L.A. Times:
Mahony compared Arizona to Nazi Germany after the state passed a strict new law that allows police to check the legal status of anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant.
Apparently being concerned with border security, national sovereignty, drug cartel violence, and …