Was the 14th Amendment 4 Illegal Immigrants?
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford and why is it important of 1854?
In this ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a Federal territory.
The Reconstruction Amendments Meant to Give Rights to those previously Enslaved and not for todays Illegals or those who were born to illegals.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, also known as the Reconstruction Amendments, were passed after the Civil War to address the social and political issues faced by African Americans:
- 13th Amendment
Ratified in 1865, this amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. - 14th Amendment
Ratified in 1868, this amendment established citizenship for all people born in the United States, and required due process of law and equal protection for all people. - 15th Amendment
Ratified in 1870, this amendment prohibited the denial of a citizen's right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Reconstruction Amendments
Ratified between 1865 and 1870, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, known as the “Reconstruction Amendments,” ended slavery in the United States, ensured birthright citizenship, as well as due process and “equal protection of the laws” under the federal and state governments, and expanded voting rights by prohibiting discrimination based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The Reconstruction Amendments also granted Congress the power to enforce the amendments’ provisions through federal legislation. The 14th Amendment eliminated the three-fifths rule in Article I, Sec. 2, cl. 3, and punished any state that did not permit male citizens twenty-one years old or older to vote by reducing the state’s proportional representation. This amendment also barred those who “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or “given aid or comfort to the enemies” of the United States from public office, unless Congress voted to remove this prohibition. The Reconstruction Amendments were essential to reuniting the United States during Reconstruction, and confederate states were required to ratify the 13th and 14th Amendments to be readmitted to the union.
Civil Rights Legacy
The Reconstruction Amendments provided the constitutional basis for enforcement and implementation of Reconstruction and passage of federal legislation such as the Civil Rights Acts of 1866,1875 and the Enforcement Acts of 1870-71 to end slavery, ensure full citizenship, civil rights, and voting rights to freed African Americans and to address growing violence and intimidation against freed African Americans in the South. However, in U.S. v. Cruikshank (1875), the Supreme Court dismissed the use of Enforcement Acts against individuals, and, in the Civil Rights Cases (1883), the Court declared that the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which had barred racial discrimination in public accommodations, was unconstitutional. In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Court upheld segregation laws, establishing the “separate but equal” doctrine.
The end of Reconstruction in 1877 and these Supreme Court decisions paved the way for racial violence, disenfranchisement through literacy tests, and Jim Crow segregation in the South, but it also inspired legal challenges to discrimination and segregation including Brown v. Board of Ed. (1954), a Civil Rights Movement, and a Second Reconstruction a century later with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.
While these amendments were intended to guarantee the freedom of the formerly enslaved and grant them certain civil rights, the promise of these amendments was eroded by state laws and federal court decisions. The federal government did not fully enforce the 15th Amendment until 1965.
The 14th Amendment today is being used to make children born to Illegal Immigrants immediate U.S. Citizenship, when if you study the Original reason & intent of the 14th Amendment it’s clear that it was meant for One Specific reason and should have been ended to keep this type of Misuse from happening, however in 1868 we didn’t have any trouble with Mass Illegal or any other type of Immigration and there was no Reason to believe we’d be having one.
Here’s how we treat Foreign Diplomats whose children are born within our borders even though they’re here Legally: A person born in the United States to a foreign diplomatic officer accredited to the United States is not subject to the jurisdiction of United States law. Therefore, that person cannot be considered a U.S. citizen at birth under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
There was also a Law passed in (1965 called the Hart Seller Act which Ended Quotas on Immigration & the Merit System,) as up until then we had both to insure those entering the USA didn’t overwhelm our Nations systems and that had qualifications needed in our Workforce, however then Pres. Johnson and his so called Great Society would be hindered by these Restrictions in the Long Term Plan he had in mind, which unfortunately most Americans were totally unaware of it as he moved forward with his Socialist Ideas, never truly covered as most of US were concerned with the Vietnam War, just another case of Distraction to bring about the Transformation of the USA even then.
I truly hope this clears up a few things for most who read it, as some of the comments I received from my last post many believe that the new interpretation now being used is the law when in fact it’s not and it was never meant to be, and also we now have some Dems saying that to Deport Illegals would cause Inflation, which is completely untrue, we have some inflation caused by illegals renting apts., homes, etc. and medical facilities being overwhelmed along with our schools, and also we have illegals working throughout the USA taking jobs from USA Citizens and their Children.
I’m sure we have more than enough People from around the World In Line to come into the USA Legally and that’s who we want.
We also need all of you to contact Your Federal Senators & Representatives and Demand they Pass a New Immigration Law to once again set up Quotas and Merit in them so we’ll have control over who comes into the USA and also to End Social Security Benefits now being received by Immigrants who are here even the legal ones who’ve never worked here.- Remember to view more of my posts just go to our FB page top of Front Page
- God Bless You All; Clair Van Steenwyk
