Citizenship - I told you so

According to Time Magazine, Arizona intends to pass a bill denying birth certificates to children born in the United States whose parents are illegal immigrants. Do you like how they refer to them as "Anchor Babies". Remember, according to Clinton, citizenship is a privilege.

This comes at the same time that articles are being published saying that "minorities" are set to outnumber non-Hispanic whites in America. The timing of the actions and statements is meant to show a connection. The fact is that "whites" are having fewer children.

Divide and conquer, a very old tool. The condition in our country is not due to minorities or aliens, they did not destroy our economy or turn us into a socialist nation. Greed did that. Greed and a lack of concern over how our actions impact others. Our failure to be committed to one another.

If we as the citizens ignore the Constitution, how then can we complain when the government does the same thing? We live with the government we tolerate. We cannot pick and choose fundamentals. Citizenship, privacy, free speech, they are all fundamental. We can be a country of race or morals. The beauty of the United States was that we were a melting pot where different groups could come together, some want to move away from that perspective.

In my opinion, we need to work with each other and not against each other. Illegal aliens do not run the Federal Reserve, they did not run General Motors or the banks or the insurance companies or the drug companies. I do believe we should protect our borders. I do believe we should be allowed to remove illegal aliens from the country, they should be allowed to take their children who were born here with them if they so wish; but, you are a citizen of the country you were born in, that is fundamental.

We cannot overreact to outliers. We cannot write laws completely around anomalies nor should we fear small discrepancies or we have no consistency or fairness. When we do we end up with ridiculous laws. In Oregon it is illegal to pump your own gasoline. To many people this sounds stupid; but, it was done in response to something.

A relatively rare problem arises and we pass a law putting another warning label on a product. We cannot prevent all risk, we shouldn't try, it results in stupid laws.

And by the way, the Pilgrims were illegal aliens.