the-pi-guy said:
The 14th amendment says all person born in the US is a citizen. Unless you are claiming that illegals aren't people. The whole concept of illegal citizens would be foreign to the founding fathers. |
There are no such thing as illegal citizens. You are correct to simple say that people born here regardless of legal status citizens per plain text understanding of the English language. It is quite hard to convincingly make it mean anything else. If they only meant freed slaves they would have said that. Therefore they meant what they said and nothing more or less. However the biggest benefactor of this law are the enormous number of immigrants that came to america from countries in Europe and whose children were auto citizens. Legal status can not be taken as an interpretation because the amendment does not specify. Case closed.
