On AlterNet: 14th amendment

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "14th amendment"

Right-Wing Politicos Using Immigration Controversy to Create a Second Class of US Citizenship

Michele Waslin, Immigration Impact. January 12, 2011.

Legislators are simply using their own states and constituents as staging grounds for their ultimate battle; there would be no immediate implications for the states that pass it.

Republicans Putting on 14th Amendment Dog and Pony Show

Seth Hoy, Immigration Impact. August 5, 2010.

GOP pandering to immigration extremists who would rather amend the U.S. Constitution than reform our immigration system.

8 Words That Could Save Our Country

David Morris, AlterNet. May 1, 2010.

"Corporations are not people. Money is not speech." These are fundamental truths that our nation needs to remember -- and add to the Constitution.

Georgia Rep Wants to Gut the 14th Amendment

David L. Ostendorf, Imagine 2050. June 12, 2009.

The bill rekindles the fervor for dismantling a cornerstone of rights won by African Americans in the post-Civil War era.

Anti-Immigrant Republican Brian Bilbray's Bizarre Crusade on the 14th Amendment

Rhonda Brownstein, Southern Poverty Law Center. September 1, 2008.

Since 1995, U.S. Rep. Bilbray (R-Calif.) has tried to deny American citizenship to children born in the United States of non-citizen parents.

Which Babies Are Real Americans?

Priscilla Huang, TomPaine.com. February 21, 2007.

Anti-immigration hysteria and anti-choice propaganda come together in a neat and terrifying package.