Opinion

Oberweis wrong on 14th Amendment

Posted February 24, 2008 10:00 pm

Jim Oberweis supports diluting the 14th Amendment and stripping children born in the U.S. of illegal immigrants of their citizenship.

The 14th Amendment passed in 1868.

It grants "birthright citizenship" and it was proposed and passed after the Civil War to provide citizenship protection to African-Americans in the post slavery era.

The Ku Klux Klan came into being in 1866 to, in part, dilute the impact of the then-proposed 14th Amendment. Equal protection under the 14th Amendment was explicitly established for children of illegal immigrants by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plyler vs. Doe in 1982.

Jim Oberweis is wrong to support the diluting of the 14th Amendment and plays to the agenda of the Ku Klux Klan and like-minded white supremacist groups, when he does.

We do not need a congressman who unwittingly or wittingly supports the agenda of white supremacist groups.

Thomas Tawney

West Chicago

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