Rand Versus Fourteen

Rand Paul's the latest GOP luminary to shoot his mouth off about changing the Constitution.

Senate candidate Rand Paul (R-KY), in an interview this week with Right Wing News, doubled down on his assertion that the children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States should not be citizens.

In the new interview, Paul said he believes the courts should review whether the Fourteenth Amendment actually grants citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants. And if they decide it does, he said, we should amend the Constitution.

"I also think that we need to have the courts review whether or not -- if you break the law to come into the U.S. -- whether your child would be a citizen just by being born here," he said. "The Fourteenth Amendment actually says that you will be a citizen as long as you are under the jurisdiction of the United States. Many argue that these children that are born to illegal aliens are really still under the jurisdiction of the Mexican government. I think we need to fight that out in the courts."

Which is funny, because the courts determined that over a hundred years ago in a case involving a Chinese immigrant.   But Rand wants the courts (presumably led by unaccountable, unelected activist judges) to re-fight the civil rights and Fourteenth Amendment battles all over again, mainly because Rand and his buddies didn't like the outcome, and that outcome is making it politically more difficult on Republicans in the future due to America's changing racial demographics.

Let's not kid ourselves here.  This has nothing to do with the law, and everything to do with Republicans being terrified of the Great Brown Horde taking over America.  Any time you hear a Republican wanting to change the Constitution to "preserve our culture" it means "I want to take economic, social, and political power away from groups that do not vote for us because we demonize them."

Why would the Randroid be any different?  He's just another Southern Republican, folks.