It's time to round 'em up and deport 'em all.

The Republican leadership has decided to give a platform to the anti-immigrant extremist factions of its party that call for a ban on birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants.

At a time when most Americans want a fair and humane solution to the immigration problem, the GOP would rather play dirty and divert attention from incremental measures on the table.

In just the past week, Republican Senators like Lindsey Graham, Jon Kyl, John McCain, Chuck Grassley, John Cornyn and even Senate Minority leader Mitch McConell have all given a thumbs-up to stripping American-born children of their citizenship as a way to control immigration.

Not only is this hateful as it risks creating a caste of unassimilated and disenfranchised American children and a cumbersome bureaucratic mess for all Americans who would need to prove the citizenship of their newborn, it does nothing to address the many ways in which the immigration system is broken. 

Just because Republicans lack the ability or are so full of hatred that they can't sit down and come up with a solution to a broken immigration system does not give them the right to use it as a wedge issue to toy with the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection.

Tell the GOP that hating on brown children as a way to divert attention from real immigration reforms is deplorable. And to come up with some real solutions to our broken immigration system.