Constitution? 14th Amendment?

Homicidal_Squirrel said:

It's like a 13th Amendment, but with a four instead of a three.

No. I mean, yeah it's possible the judge is also a racist, but I'm more interested in discussing the motivations of the Texas officials for making these changes and targeting Mexicans. The legality doesn't interest me. The judge did what he did. It's procedural. I'm betting in the end the state of Texas will end up losing the case. The Texas officials just happened to have found a way to legally take take away a natural born citizen's 14th Amendment rights. Their reasons remind me of the reasons republicans across the country give for voter ID laws. They're claiming to address a problem that isn't there.

Is it for racist reasons that they're doing this? Yeah, most likely.

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Ovinomancer said:

No problem with this, at all. I'm not ready to issue a blanket condemnation of it as racist, but I am certainly aware there's a decent probability it is. My issues are arguments that it's obviously racist based on definitions that don't agree, or that it shouldn't need to go to trial.

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As an aside, there are other paths for the citizen children to receive all of their due rights in this case. It just happens that such routes expose their illegal parents to immigration officers. I'm not saying this makes it all better (it clearly doesn't), I'm just pointing out that such things exist.

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Homicidal_Squirrel said:

Who or what doesn't agree with the definitions?

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Sure, it's like saying you can get medical care, but we're going to have to cut off your sack when you get it.

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Ovinomancer said:

Scroll back through the last few posts?

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Ovinomancer said:

Scroll back through the last few posts?

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