President Trump says he plans to end birthright citizenship with an executive order

[Benton]

(11-01-2018, 10:02 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: So, an illegal immigrant can be in labor, step across the border, pop the baby out a minute later, and then it's a citizen, guaranteed the same rights as everyone else?

Different times and circumstances.

To the bold, you don't have to be a citizen for this. Just being here guarantees you the rights (not the same privileges, but the same rights).

As far as the times and circumstances, why? Because they came by boat? People have come here for nearly three centuries to escape persecution, unjust laws and war. And they were often welcomed with unwelcomeness, because the people already here didn't want to give ground to a minority, be it Catholics or Jews or brown people or white-people-who-aren't-the-same-white-people, or Germans, or Japanese or whoever else.