(CNN)  -- Every time I think the Republican Party cannot get any more tone-deaf on issues involving race and equal rights, someone in leadership proves me wrong. In case you missed it, a group of Republican senators -- Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Jefferson "Jeff Davis" Sessions of Alabama and Jon Kyl of Arizona -- have decided that we might need to revisit the 14th Amendment's provision granting citizenship to people born in the United States. This development, in response to illegal immigrants whose children are born in the United States, is simply stunning and reckless.
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Sophia Nelson: GOP, once progressive, now tone-deaf on race and ethnicity
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Immigration woes won't be helped by GOP revisiting 14th Amendment, she says
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GOP helped pass 14th Amendment granting citizenship to those born in U.S.
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Nelson: Tinkering with Constitution wrong; would alienate blacks, Hispanics
Even once-sensible conservatives like Graham have drifted to a hard-right ideology so extreme that people of color, in this case @placeholder, will be hard-pressed to find a home in the GOP.