[Smartaleck]

"It's a complete misreading of the 14th Amendment" to the Constitution to think that illegal aliens are entitled to the same rights as U.S. citizens,"

Perhaps it isn't. If one looks at the rights spelled out in the Constitution, when it refers to the people it always refers to the "citizens" with one exception, the 14th amendment. The courts have ruled that without wording to the contrary, it does mean anyone. If the words aren't there it's rather difficult to argue otherwise?

Why the writers chose to leave this very important word out of the wording is beyond me, but it needs to be changed.

[DoughtyOne]

That is the problem with the courts today. They can find every reason in the book to rule the way they want to, but couldn't scrounge up a copy of the federalist paper or the writings of those who wrote the U.S. Constitution if their lives depended on it. What were the founding fathers thinking? What did go on in the background? It's all there. It's all available. There's no secret to their intents.