Agnapostate
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- #21
Actually, I disagree...the 14th amendment is already clear and doesn't grant them citizenship. I don't understand those who claim it did. Again, how can an amendment which specifically denies citizenship to children born to LEGAL diplomats ever be interpreted as providing citizenship to children born to ILLEGAL ALIENS????
There's a patently obvious response to that; the presence of legal diplomats is one of explicit representation of a foreign national power, whereas the presence of immigrants both legal and illegal is not intended to function as a formal representation of a foreign nation-state and they may maintain permanent residence.