Of course you don't....unless you're aware of the fact that originally, it was a State who decided whether a denizen deserved citizenship, not the federal government.
The war stripped that power from the States under the auspices of freeing the slaves, yet everyone today screams 'no amnesty' and gets upset because the federal government exercises a power that the Union helped them obtain.
Guess you have to file it under "Unintended consequences".
I think the pertinent question is “would America be better or worse off now if the South had won the War Between The States?”
If by "originally" you mean under the Articles of Confederation. But under the Constitution's Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4: "establish a Uniform Rule of Naturalization" the power to determine citizenship was a granted power of congress
Also, from Madison's Federalist No. 42
The dissimilarity in the rules of naturalization, has long been remarked as a fault in our system, and as laying a foundation for intricate and delicate questions.(...)The new Constitution has accordingly with great propriety made provision against them, and all others proceeding from the defect of the confederation, on this head, by authorising the general government to establish an uniform rule of naturalization throughout the United States.