Uiiop wrote:Opfornia wrote:The 14th amendment was not created during the illegal immigration crisis we see now, so it wasn't designed with them in mind, since immigration to the United States was entirely different then than it is now.
The problem is two fold...one you have to prove that the differences in policy is sufficient to make the 14th not apply and two well let me be blunt unless the fact it exists is enough i hardly call something that's going down and not causing problems a "Crisis".
I think you know very well how much the world has changed since the slaves were freed, so I won't even entertain that comment. As for your rejection of the term "crisis", there are an unprecedented amount of illegal immigrants in the US, in 2005 the number was approximately 11 million with obvious increase in the past decade and two years. Undocumented immigrants can be enrolled in public schools, be the beneficiary of government funding through various means, all without contributing to the welfare themselves. We could argue over my usage of the word, but this matter is purely that of opinion.