re: #18 EmmmieG

The fourteenth ammendment was passed because the newly reconstructed South was finding new and creative ways to deny citizenship to the recently freed slaves. They had to make geography the basis of citizenship, because it couldn’t be gotten around.

(Also, kids born in this country to immigrant parents had been considered Americans for a long time, starting with people like Benjamin Franklin.

I understand that it has become an immigration problem, but the fourteenth ammendment only extended to blacks what had been taken for granted for whites for a long time.

Clarify… so it has nothing to do with children of illegal immigrants who are born in this country?