08-20-2015, 01:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Robbie
The whole "under the jurisdiction" was meant to cover the freed slaves in 1868 when the amendment was passed. They truly were "under the jurisdiction".
Illegal aliens are not.
The Supreme Court even ruled that Native American Indians were not "under the jurisdiction" and gave them citizenship on a case-by-case basis until Congress granted all of them citizenship in 1924.
This isn't quite as black and white as it appears.
But again...I would simply send the parents back home and make them take their kids with them. Let the kids be citizens. But make them live with their parents in the parent's home country until they are of legal age.
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I do not think you want to seriously go down that road of arguing "what was meant" by the Amendment. If you do, then you would have to accept that the 2nd Amendment "was meant" only to cover muskets and other similar revolution era weapon technology...not semi-automatic rifles. And the 1st Amendment "was meant" to cover political speech...not pornography. |
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