It's summertime, and the living's easy. This is especially true in Arizona, where the brutal desert heat actually wafts through your transom like a comfortable breeze compared to the hot air that erupts regularly from our public officials.
State Senator Russell Pearce, in between social engagements with white supremacists, remains active in the only game in town (immigration). The architect of the infamous SB 1o7o now trains his sights on newborns, to whom he would deny birth certificates if their parents happened to be undocumented aliens.
Got that? They would literally remain in the ranks of the unborn - the only form of childhood that seems to concern any conservative.
I know... The Fourteenth Amendment states very clearly that anyone born in (and subject to the jurisdiction of) the United States is an American citizen. Pearce apparently either cannot read or cannot comprehend the words at which he stares with slackened jaw; flip a coin.
He and other local right-wing yokels argue that, for all this time, we've just been misinterpreting that particular section of the Constitution. Those Framers who wrote it, they opine, did not intend to bestow citizenship upon the offspring of illegal immigrants.
I suppose they believe that. So what if the Supreme Court has historically disagreed? Chasing down their scattered logic, one might present the same case against much of the Bill of Rights.
The Second Amendment should be limited to flintlock muzzle-loaders, because the Founding Fathers could never have predicted the obscene power of the machine gun. The First Amendment should be scrapped, as well, because someone who merely discovered bifocals and electricity could never have envisioned the spectacle of the Internet.
The Fourth Amendment can go out the window, because hey, the signers of the Declaration didn't know squat about wiretapping. The Fifth Amendment, well, that just mollycoddles these obvious criminals in a manner unforeseen. And we don't need any of the other Amendments, either, because we're just too stupid to understand them.
This explains, in advance, why SB 1o7o will be found un-Constitutional in the coming days by a judge reviewing numerous claims against the State. We'll say she's an activist jurist. We'll say she doesn't understand. We'll say she's a liberal. And we'll devise a solution that ventures even further off the charts - Latino concentration camps, something.
The only jewels to be found in all of this garbage can be found in our demographics. A decade from now, hundreds of thousands of loony white-haired bigots (we've built entire cities in which to house them) will be dead. Replacing them at the poll booths will be young Hispanic voters, who will have grown up watching this ugly stage play.
Slow or not, it's suicide on the part of the Republican Party, and they don't want to be bothered while they're doing it. Let's all do them a big favor and oblige.
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