[dirtboy]

Will we be expecting you to address the actual language of the Fourteenth Amendment

If BlackElk's arguments were correct regarding the 14th Amendment, we would be legally unable to deport illegal aliens. An illegal alien may technically be allowed to collect welfare benefits, but if immigration law were followed they should not be allowed to stay in the country to collect them. The one exception would apply to anyone with an outstanding asylum application, which allows them to stay in this country pending a hearing regardless of immigration status.

[marajade]

illegal aliens cannot get welfare benefits... I'm not going to further this thread with supposed legal arguments or understandings of the 14th amendment...

[BlackElk]

You just have to give to "illegal" persons within the US who are foreign nationals due process of law. The law is not self-executing.