My soapbox

I don't get angry that often, but I read something this morning that made me angry. In a survey conducted of 1.5 million Americans, the majority is in favor of taking citizenship away from children of "illegal immigrants" born in the US. (I really don't like that phrase. As if any human being is illegal.") Being that my husband fit into that category when he arrived here 5 years ago, they could be talking about my son! First, whether or not you agree with the fact that the parents are here, that child oughtn't be punished. Second, our Constitution guarantees that anyone born on US soil is a US citizen. We are treading in dangerous waters when we start qualifying that. Third, whether we like it or not, the people born here today are the next generation of Americans. I personally want the people running my country when I'm a senior citizen to be insured and educated, which they will most likely not get if their citizenship is stripped from them. People tend to get very anti-immigrant in the name of national security. We forget that our white ancestors didn't speak the language of the natives living here when they arrived. We forget that our ancestors gave them smallpox,cholera, and syphilis (to name a few) and shoved them off onto reservations. I personally would rather have 20 million people here illegally (regardless of where they're from) who are working, paying taxes (they do) and raising decent children than 20 people who come to this country legally to fly planes into the WTC. Maybe they just surveyed the wrong people. I hate to think that my fellow Americans have become so short-sighted that they now want to pick and choose who among those born here gets to be a citizen.