Reply #75: In what way does the Citizenship Clause

[Dogtown]

pertain to this discussion? The 14th Amendment in general asserts that non-citizens cannot be excluded from due process. That supports my premise in post #3.

The Citizenship Clause only pertains to voting rights. Not pertinent to this case, or this thread.

If you chose to interpret my post #3 to mean that all people everywhere are protected by the Constitution, it's solely due to your poor reading comprehension and personal prejudice. My "basic human rights" referred only to the rights under discussion in this thread; ie, due process. Nor did I say, anywhere, that the Constitution ensures all of it's provisions to every resident of the country.

Nor I did I say that all rights provided for in the Constitution were "basic human rights". Some, most obviously, only pertain to citizens.

In short, the Constitution does enumerate many basic human rights. My premise is correct. It doesn't address *all* basic human rights, nor does it *only* address basic human rights. Your insistence on re-writing my statement is preposterous. And disruptive.

Due process *is* a basic human right afforded to all residents of the country.

I didn't "gloss over" your snide remark about Native Americans. I didn't address it because it was *another* digression. It has nothing to do with the OP. Digressions of this type disrupt the flow of discussion. If you'd like to support discrimination against Native Americans, please start your own thread on the topic. Here, we're trying to discuss the discrimination against immigrants in this country.

I've already mentioned several times that obvious humanitarian errors existed in the original document and that some of these errors have been corrected.

Stay on topic.