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America is under attack and it's coming from where you least expect it, the

Constitution. And which amendment is trying to kill us? At first I was sure it was

the second. That's where the guns are. But no, this threat is lurking up in the

double digits in the most sinister amendment of them all. Jim, a growing number

of Republicans are calling for dumping the 14th Amendment, revoking the

citizenship of people born in this country. If one of their parents isn't a

legal immigrant. The 14th Amendment Lindsey Graham among others is proposing

that we repeal the provision where you get automatic citizenship if you are born

in the country. The 14th Amendment was written and passed I think in 1868 at a

time when we had no immigration law. And that's a good thing. If there was

immigration law, the Indians could have had us deported. Now, now folks, scary

stuff, I know, scary stuff. Now the 14th Amendment states that all persons born in

the United States are citizens of the United States. And immigrants are taking

advantage of this constitutional loophole to steal our freedoms. To have a child

in America, they cross the border, they go to an emergency room, have a child

on that child's automatically an American citizen. It's called drop and leave.

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