[Natural Law]

"Allow me to help you with that homework Natural Law."

None of that passes the "so what test". How about you do a little constitutional law homework and tell me what the following provision within the 14th Amendment means in the context of illegal immigrants:

"nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Are you denying that persons both legally and illegally in this country have basic human rights and certain legal protections against violence and theft?

Are you denying that there are legal paths to citizenship and legal recourse available to persons both legally and illegally in this country?

Are you denying that God cares just as much for persons both legally and illegally in this country?

Sounds to me that you are pretty close to declaring illegal immigrants untermensch.

[TSgt]

"nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Are you denying that persons both legally and illegally in this country have basic human rights and certain legal protections against violence and theft? Are you denying that there are legal paths to citizenship and legal recourse available to persons both legally and illegally in this country? Are you denying that God cares just as much for persons both legally and illegally in this country? Sounds to me that you are pretty close to declaring illegal immigrants untermensch.

The constitutional argument is separate from whether or not the Catholic church is pro-illegal immigration and I've proven that it is. Now onto the constitutional argument, the 14th Amendment is a post-Civil war reconstruction amendment that provided citizenship to slaves. Later the SCOTUS affirmed that children of Chinese immigrants who were BORN here were in fact legal U.S. citizens. You are stretching the 14th amendment. By your definition an invading foreign army would be covered under the constitution as soon as their boots hit U.S. soil. Nice try...