Thanks go out to Pie for bringing to our attention this valuable lesson in history and the Constitution.
JUSTICE BRENNAN’S FOOTNOTE GAVE US ANCHOR BABIES
August 4, 2010
Democrats act as if the right to run across the border when you’re 8 1/2 months pregnant, give birth in a U.S. hospital and then immediately start collecting welfare was exactly what our forebears had in mind — a sacred constitutional right, as old as the 14th Amendment itself.
The louder liberals talk about some ancient constitutional right, the more you can be sure it was invented in the last few decades.
In fact, this alleged right derives only from a footnote slyly slipped into a Supreme Court opinion by Justice Brennan in 1982. You might say it snuck in when no one was looking, and now we have to give it residence.
The 14th Amendment was added after the Civil War in order to delegitimize the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, which held that black slaves were not citizens of the United States. The precise purpose of the amendment was to stop sleazy Southern states from denying citizenship rights to newly freed slaves — many of whom had roots in this country longer than a lot of white people.
I just couldn’t leave it in comments, folks!
It wouldn’t hurt to listen to Mark Levin on the subject either.
Now, go forth and educate!!