No. of Recommendations: 9
Correct. It doesn't, never has, and in fact, the Supreme Court has never ruled on illegal immigration with respect to the 14th Amendment.
They also never ruled on whether it applied to women. Or to people that were from Mexico instead of China. Or to people born after 1900.
The language of the Amendment is unequivocal. It doesn't have a carve out for people who crossed the border illegally. Those people are fully subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, just as much as a slave that was imported here illegally - and just like the slaves' children could no longer be deprived of citizenship just because of their parents' status, so too is it forbidden for the government to create an inferior class of infants based on the status of their parents.
While you people are chortling over what the judge said, the context that you're missing (surprise, surprise) is that Trump knew that the coast states would run to a Hawaii Obama judge or some other lib coastal dude and get exactly this ruling with exactly this reasoning.
The judge was a Reagan appointee.
