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To: calex59

Just curious, but where do get that interpretation? The text of the 14th amendment just says, "...any person...", without specifying their citizenship status.
I don't like illegal immigration any more than any one else but I think all persons subject to US jurisdiction have "rights", even those jailed or interned.
There are many categories of people whose rights may be curtailed by circumstances or condition; serving soldiers, POWs, interned enemy aliens during wartime, convicted criminals, juveniles, those judged mentally unfit.


24 posted on 06/15/2006 7:28:00 AM PDT by skepsel
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To: skepsel

I forget the article and don't have time to look it up right now, you can research if you want, but ALL states, not the feds, have the right to determine who will be citizens or legal residents, this right is specifically given to the states. Also, use your head, if people who are here illegally have the same rights as legal residents and citizens then everyone, the world over, has those rights also, because not only are illegal aliens not legal residents, they are NON residents, they have no legal right to be here, therefore they have no rights other than to be treated humanely as we deport their criminal butts back to where they belong.


29 posted on 06/15/2006 8:40:20 AM PDT by calex59 (The '86 amnesty put us in the toilet, now the senate wants to flush it!)
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To: skepsel
Amendment XIV
1. ... nor shall any State...


The federal government isn't a State.
40 posted on 06/15/2006 10:58:16 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: skepsel
Just curious, but where do get that interpretation? The text of the 14th amendment just says, "...any person...", without specifying their citizenship status.

You could always start with "We the People..."

52 posted on 06/15/2006 9:38:06 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: skepsel; calex59; neverdem

The ultimate in 0parsing....nevermind that much (most ) of the Constitution and asociated documents arelates ( applies ) to citizens of the United states.....


55 posted on 06/16/2006 9:03:53 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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