I just thought it fair that you answer. Guess you have a problem there.

My position is that the 14th should be deleted.

And not the only way to serve your country?

No, I am not a 'Latino'.  However, I feel their pain.

Well Bubba, I feel the pain of our citizens who are losing what use to be good paying jobs with good benefits to illegal immigrants.

You know, all us members of "the melting pot."

You should also consider that when the waves of immigrants occurred in the late 1800's 1900's we needed farmers to farm our open spaces and unskilled labor to work in our factories.

Illegal immigration is sharply down--most likely because of the down economy.

Crime in Arizona is down.  The murder rate is down sharply.

The drug wars that will spill over onto U.S. soil?  Not really at all.  Juarez and all its killings....has not spilled over into El Paso--which has about 10 murders--a year.....Yeah, all those illegal immigrants will cause a crime wave.  El Paso is 80% Latino, my friend.  So, one could convicingly argue that more Latinos with their traditionally strong family ties means less crime.

The reason illegal immigration is now a big issue is that racists have come to power in Arizona.  The guy who pushed the papers please law said people could be stopped by cops as part of an effort to enforce zoning issues.....He gave the example of cars up on blocks in the front yard or too many people living in the same residence.

This racist in Arizona supported firing teachers with accents and a new law that bans Latino Studies classes in public schools.  And, there was the mural in Northern Arizona of school kids that drew racist taunts because the kids' complexion was too dark--and the order was given to make them lighter.  The artist based his original work on photos of actual school kids.

The reason for birthright citizenship is to prevent the creation of a permanent subclass of people who are not citizens.  It has been the law for over four hundred years and predates the Fourteenth Amendment and goes back to at least Queen Elizabeth I.  (Do you want to repeal the Magna Carta too?)  According to your logic, people could be deported even if their family had lived here for a hundred years....Thus, you create the anti-melting pot.....A permanent, ever-expanding group without rights--always in fear of deportation.  That is fundamentally unAmerican.   We do not have Helots here.

That you want to get rid of the Fourteenth Amendment shows how radical you are.  That Amendment was secured so that no longer would there be a subclass of noncitizens who had been born here but who had no rights....It is part of our cherished history bought with blood.  And you want to change it now?  For what?

Because you fear we are being invaded by "them."....You have used the words of invasion.  You are wrong about the economic impacts of illegal immigration and increase in crime.....But you make up data.

The reason is bigotry.....nativism....Know Nothingism.  It is a down economy and there are easy scapegoats out there to pick on.....

I can't even wrap my head around my town to your comparison to the Jim Crow south.  That is a leap of logic my mind won't jump.  Because someone doesn't see a problem you do, they are equal to compliant racists that engaged in systemic racism.  Nice try McFry.

That is really quite laughable.  Americans have learned that the Civil Rights movement was historically moral and important.  So, conservatives at times try to cloak what they do in terms of the Civil Rights movement....with often awkward results....It shows how little they understand Civil Rights.

And Islam is still growing as a newer religion.....

And we are supposed to accept Shari law because of that?

And keep on with the bigot nonsense. I never said they had to return to where they came from...

Her daughter/my step daughter went through the same process at the time. Just two weeks ago she became a US citizen.