re: Question about the border crisis and illegal children immigrants

Courts (including the Supreme Court) have interpreted Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to confer due process rights to illegals. In so doing, they have ignored both the actual language of the Section, as well as the intent of the drafters of the Amendment (to confer citizenship to freed slaves and to prevent former Confederate states form interfering with their rights as US citizens [essentially, a "frick you" to Roger Taney and the Dred Scott decision).

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All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

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