The 28th amendment: equal opportunity for immigrants.

• Author: Safire, William
• Position: Opinion - Brief Article

The U.S. Constitution directs that only "natural born" citizens are eligible for the nation's highest office. It's time to end this discrimination. There may have been reason for suspicion of the foreign-born as the nation was in formation, but that nativist bias has no place in a nation proud of its "golden door." When an immigrant is naturalized, the oath taken and the Pledge of Allegiance given make the immigrant 100 percent American, with all the rights, privileges, and obligations appertaining thereto. All except one--the right to run for...