Are children ( born in this nation ) of undocumented aliens protected under the 14th amendment?
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Yes, we are the only Nation dumb enough to allow anchor babies to become citizens even when parents are here illegally.
yes...any child born in America automatically becomes a citizen...aren't you glad?
The first section of the Fourteenth Amendment provides "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."
Are children of undocumented aliens people? -- yes
Are they born in the United States -- per your question again yes
Are they subject to the jurisdiction of the United States -- if they committed an offense while in the city in which they were born would they be subject to the authority of the courts (either juvenile or adult) -- again the answer is yes.
Thus, by the plain language of the Fourteenth Amendment, they are citizens.
I would imagine so because all people born in the US are citizens, no matter their oigin of their parents.
yes, but it's actually irrelevant.
anyone in the jurisdiction of the united states (legal or illegal) is protected.
ah, whoops, sorry. i was under the impression you were talking about equal protection.
but yes, they qualify under section one.
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment XIV) is one of the post-Civil War amendments (known as the Reconstruction Amendments), intended to secure rights for former slaves. It includes the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses among others. It was proposed on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868.[1] It is perhaps one of the most important structural changes to the Constitution.
The amendment provides a broad definition of national citizenship, overturning the Dred Scott case, which excluded African Americans. It requires the states to provide equal protection under the law to all persons (not only to citizens) within their jurisdictions, and was used in the mid-20th century to dismantle legal segregation, as in Brown v. Board of Education. Its Due Process Clause has driven many important and controversial cases around privacy rights, abortion (see Roe v. Wade), and other issues.
The other two post-Civil War amendments are the Thirteenth Amendment (banning slavery) and the Fifteenth Amendment (banning race-based voting qualifications). According to Supreme Court Justice Noah Swayne, "Fairly construed, these amendments may be said to rise to the dignity of a new Magna Carta."[2]
Section 1. 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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; 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.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Every single person in the country is protected under the 14th amendment. This includes citizens, legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, visitors, prisoners, terrorists, criminals, and anyone else who meets the definition of a "person".
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