House Republican Calls For Deportation of U.S. Citizens

[babylonsister]

How long before other rethugs jump on this bandwagon?

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_04/023552.php

HOUSE REPUBLICAN CALLS FOR DEPORTATION OF U.S. CITIZENS.... Just a few weeks ago, the political fight over immigration policy was barely a blip on the national radar. Now we have a House Republican lawmaker, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), calling for the government to deport U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants.

"Would you support deportation of natural-born American citizens that are the children of illegal aliens," Hunter was asked. "I would have to, yes," Hunter said. "... We simply cannot afford what we're doing right now," he said. "... It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It's what's in our souls. ..."

Hunter made his comments at a "tea party" rally in the San Diego County city of Ramona over the weekend.

Let's be real clear about this. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that those "born ... in the United States" are "citizens of the United States." It also says that no state can "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."

For that matter, the Supreme Court ruled in 1898 that a baby born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants was legally a U.S. citizen, even though federal law at the time denied citizenship to people from China. The court said birth in the United States constituted "a sufficient and complete right to citizenship."

What this Republican congressman is saying, then, is that he supports a policy wherein the U.S. government deports U.S. citizens based on their parents' immigration status.

Even for the GOP, this is pretty nutty. Indeed, if American officials were planning to deport American citizens, where would the children be expected to go?

—Steve Benen 3:35 PM

[ProSense]

1. This would make a great election-year question:

Do you agree with Duncan Hunter that U.S. citizens should be deported?


:rofl:

[IndianaGreen]

2. GOP doesn't approve of the 14th Amendment

an amendment that ironically was passed by a Republican Congress after the Civil War. Our current crop of Republicans would feel more at home with the likes of Jefferson Davis, and with slavery providing a cheap labour pool to the corporations.

[indepat]

7. Which raises the question as to why the GOP hate America and American ideals? Don't

answer that question for it should be obvious to all the GOP hates the American ideals as expressed in the Preamble to the Constitution as their handiwork irrefutably demonstrates. :-)

[treestar]

3. Evil bastard

There's nothing in his "soul."

[fishwax]

4. if it's what's "in our souls" that defines an American, then it would seem Hunter doesn't measure up

Deport him.

[donco6]

5. He's just stupid, evil or both. n/t

[Berry Cool]

6. I think that means my father's on the next boat to Italy.

I don't know whether he can prove his parents immigrated here legally.

He better brush up with his Italian phrase book.

[Jennicut]

8. Seriously. My grandfather was born here but his parents came over from Italy.

Was it legal? Do we have "papers" from back then? Interesting question. My grandfather passed away already but tons of people were born here from the parents of immigrants.