Comments by "Sasha S" (@sashas3362) on "Trump targets birthright citizenship ahead of midterm elections" video.

The earliest European immigrants who founded the original 13 colonies of the USA were not US citizens. Therefore their children could not be citizens? Nor the children of those children, ad infinitum. This argument that the 14th amendment doesn't apply to those born to foreigners/immigrants who weren't US citizens threatens to invalidate the claim to citizenship of all those born in the US since it's founding, does it not? It would appear only those descended from ancestors who had actually been naturalized could be considered citizens.
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I should point out that the legal definition of "citizen" is a "slave" because a citizen must pay federal taxes. Many people renounce their USA citizenship to avoid paying taxes. Federal citizenship replaced slavery following the civil war in the form of citizen taxpayers. Note the concept of a federal citizen did not exist prior to the passage of the 14th amendment following the Civil War. Overt slavery was replaced with covert slavery.
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If the 14th Amendment doesn't apply to foreigners/immigrants then why do the clauses say foreigners should be treated as welcome visitors rather than hostile invaders and as having the same rights as natural born citizens?
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@lbbork What statement? You mean the part where I basically quoted the 14th amendment? If you have a problem with the 14th amendment then you and those who share your POV should acknowledge what it says and work on repealing it instead of making yourself look uneducateable by trying to say it doesn't say or mean what it clearly and undeniably says and means.
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@Major Gear After doing some research I discovered it turns out that although the USA had an open border policy up until the late 1800's, you couldn't vote or hold office in government unless you were a naturalised citizen. Naturalization was tightly controlled under the Constitution and limited to only free white men until the late 1800's (although, the first president of the USA under the Articles of Confederation was a free black man named John Hanson, revealing that the original spirit of the USA was not racist and that the USA was subject to a coup by racists). I should also point out that until the 14th amendment was passed, a person was not considered a citizen by birth unless their parents were naturalized citizens. So, if the 14th amendment is nullified that would mean many people living in the USA who are descended from early settlers may lose their citizenship since they or their ancestors would no longer be considered citizens by virtue of their birth on USA soil but instead will need to have also been naturalized. This would be true regardless of their race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laws_concerning_immigration_and_naturalization_in_the_United_States
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