Wanted to tattoo AIDS victims, pro-apartheid South Africa, anti-voting rights for blacks (presumably upon passing a rigorous "literacy" test), pro-dictators like Franco and Pinochet, and so on.

The 14th Amendment was designed to clarify that children of freed slaves were citizens. It was not designed to entice foreigners to have a child on American soil to bypass normal immigration law. The writers of the 14th Amendment could not possibly have foreseen a global environment where a quick flight from Asia to California ("maternity tourism") or a hike from border countries to the US to have a baby on US soil would entitle that child to benefits their foreign parents have never paid for. The birthright citizenship policy is easily abused, and creates conflict in states where taxpayers can be forced to pay for the foreign mother's medical costs for the birth, and the child's complete upbringing for 18 years with Medicaid, Section 8 housing, Social Security, foster care and even free college. (In some states, the foster care money is paid to the grandparents of this "instant citizen.") This isn't an issue of racism, it's an economic issue. Some estimates put the number of "anchor babies" born here in 2008 at 400,000! Surely the designers of the 14th Amendment didn't envision a problem of that scale.

Birthright citizenship is still a good idea even in this day and age, but limiting it to children of citizens and legal immigrants would eliminate the "anchor baby" dynamic, and would limit the GOP's use of this issue to enrage their base. Aside from issues of racism, the idea that someone can break the law to come here to have a baby, and the public is stuck raising their kid, or even that their kid can access benefits even if raised back in their parents' country of origin (eg: , college admission priority and funding).

The vandals who defiled this cemetery obviously loathe Jews.