Friday, February 15, 2019

It is not the Executive Order, but the Deportations that I Wonder about

   We should be careful what we put in the Constitution, lest something like this sneaks in, and we obliged to give "illegal" immigrants all the same rights and privileges as everyone else:
   "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
   "any person within its jurisdiction" includes the undocumented. Does the law -- the highest law of our land, -- then, not grant equality to them? They are to have the same protections as the rest of us, and that would include the right to live here and the right to not be deported.
   The question should not be whether an executive order to fence them out is unconstitutional, but whether deporting them out once they get in is unconstitutional.
  In addition to the part of the Fourteenth Amendment quoted above, the first part of that amendment is also pertinent. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside." Go back and learn what was done (and not done) at the time to naturalize those who came to America.
  Should we grant the undocumented citizenship? I believe we should consider whether the Constitution already does.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

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