Appearing on CNN Friday, Gutierrez said talk of holding hearings on the amendment was an effort to "demonize children in the wombs of their mothers."
"These are the people that are for the sanctity of life," Gutierrez said. "And, yet, they're going to attack an unborn child and say, if that child is born, we will get rid of it from this country immediately."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told The Hill on Monday that Congress “ought to take a look at” changing the 14th Amendment, which gives the children of illegal immigrants a right to U.S. citizenship.
McConnell’s statement signals growing support within the GOP for the controversial idea, which has also recently been touted by Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
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What a stupid assertion.. NOBODY is attacking the children.
The problem is the illegal parents, and they are the ones being called to account.
This is just another straw man argument-- another puff of smoke.
Birthright citizenship is fine if the parents are citizens-- THEY are the ones who confer citizenship on the child. If somebody is here illegally, they have nothing to confer.
Very simple.
And yet Gutierrez is pro abortion .
"demonize children in the wombs of their mothers"
OH NO please don't do that..... but its ok to abort them right dems?
I grew up in Chcago. Gutierrez is the biggest P.O.S. to ever walk the capitol steps.
He couldn't care less about
We don't have to change the 14th amendment at all. All we have to do is allow the parents of the child born here the following 2 options:
1. To place the child in a home in the US and be granted all the rights and privileges he/she is allowed as a citizen and then deport the illegal parents of the child back to their home country.
2. Allow the illegal parents to take the child back to their home country with them and when the child turns 18 yoa he can return back to the US if he/she chooses to as a citizen.
Here is copy of the 14th amendment: Nowhere in the 14th amendment does it state we have to grant legal status to the parents of a natural born citizen.
Amendment XIV
(Ratified July 9, 1868)
Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave. But all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
This kind of BS fearmongering/demonization crap from both sides has ground governance to a hault.
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