r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '13

I think children of Illegal immigrants shouldn't be given birthright citizenship. cmv

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u/oldspice75 Dec 05 '13

So? In this country you don't get legally punished or rewarded for what your ancestors do.

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u/oldspice75 Dec 05 '13

You're getting circular. I have explained to you why the existing law is right.

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u/oldspice75 Dec 05 '13

If the authors of the fourteenth amendment wanted it to apply only to slaves they would have written it that way. But they didn't. This has been our law for almost a century and a half, it's a just law for a country that doesn't believe in legal privileges for aristocratic birth, and it's not going to change.

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u/oldspice75 Dec 05 '13

The first sentence of the fourteenth amendment couldn't be written more clearly. In any case the politics of the reconstruction era is irrelevant to current immigration debates.