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Sure it does.It does no such thing.
Amendment XIV
Section 1.
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.
It provides for naturalization and birth rights.
You really should pick it up and read it.
Meaning it allows the government to naturalize foreigners. That's not the same thing as "supporting" it. However, the clause that allows Congress to naturalize foreigners isn't found in the 14th Amendment. Its' found in Section 8.
"To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;"
Notice that it doesn't require the government to allow foreigners to become citizens. It allows Congress to do whatever it likes in that regard.
Of course it means supporting.
Not supporting would be not allowing it.
You're playing games with words here. You're using two difference senses of the word support. On the one hand, you're using the sense that means "allows," and on the other you're implying that the Constitution approves of immigration. It does no such thing. It merely authorizes Congress to implement whatever immigration rules it likes. If that means allowing no immigration, that's perfectly acceptable to the Constitution.
Not playing games with words at all.
We are one of the only nations that automatically grants citizenship by birthright.
The Constitution doesn't authorize that. Only Dims since Eisenhower have made that possible.