martybegan
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Except there's no rationalization for moving the line other than you want to.
We can only deport diplomats if their home country allows it. That's why they were carved out as a special group, as were Native American tribes that had treaties the US broke at the first opportunity.
Otherwise, in hundreds of years of English Common Law, if you are born here, you are a subject of the country. the 14th only clarified the status of Ex-slaves, but underscored this fact.
If you want to amend the constitution, fine, but I don't think there's a lot of appetite for that right now. Not over this.
Plenty of reasons, mainly controlling who becomes a citizen of a country is the right of a country.
No, we can PNG a diplomat any time we feel like it. We can only criminally charge them with their permission.