This is an issue that crosses political boundaries.  The constitution is a pretty hard document to alter, the threshold is set very high, but if all it required were a simple majority in congress, birth-right citizenship, would be gone.

And I hate the NY Times' quote of the day.  The 14th amendment was adopted in 1866 to keep the racists in the rebel states from denying former slaves the right to vote, and it wasn't even successful in stopping that!

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I think it deserves a lot more study and a lot more attention. But to say that you want to change the Constitution because of this feels like killing a fly with an Uzi."
ANGELA MARIA KELLEY, an immigration expert for a liberal-leaning research group, on foreign women giving birth in the United States so that their babies will be American citizens.


Arriving as Pregnant Tourists, Leaving With American Babies
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/us/29babies.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23