they can grow up to become good american citizens. there s no reason they can t. in fact, the people in congress who are trying to change the 14th amendment, in effect, are refuting what this senator from arizona says. if the 14th amendment doesn t apply to illegal aliens childrens, then why do you have to change it in the first place? annie hall, arguing, marshall mclewen, i happen to have him right here. putting a face and a name to an undocumented worker. he has been in the u.s. more than two decades. his story is ahead. immigration limbo. cautionary tale teachers want everyone to hear. so, ah, your seat good?
citizen. the civil war created this sense of a nation, unified nation. were some arguing, look, you re demogogging against democrats? absolutely. the republican majority wanted to get race out of the definition of citizenship. they felt this was a legacy of slavery to limit citizenship to one race or another race. they wanted to go to this universalistic notion of who could be an american. to be an american this is true today, i believe. to be an american is not to be a member of a particular race, of a particular people, of a particular religion. it s to accept the principles of, you know, american government, democracy, liberty. and anybody can do that. and the children of illegal immigrants can do that. they can grow up to become good american citizens. there s no reason they can t. in fact, the people in congress who are trying to change the 14th amendment, in effect, are refuting what this senator from arizona says. if the 14th amendment doesn t apply to illegal aliens
refuting what this senator from arizona says. if the 14th amendment doesn t apply to illegal aliens childrens, why do you have to change it in the first place. i said this to you before the break, in annie hall where they say, you know nothing about marshall mccluen, i have marshall mccluen right here. thanks for being with us. professor eric foner. up next. the wave of illegal immigrants, some are leaving arizona to go to other states that are more welcoming? we ll have that ahead. and these two felons broke out of an arizona prison, they hijacked an 18-wheeler with a female accomplice. how did they get out of that prison in the first place, and the fact that this is a privately-run prison have anything to do with the fact
of the definition of citizenship. they felt this was a legacy of slavery to limit citizenship to one race or another race. they wanted to go to this universal notion of who can be an american. to be an american is not to be a member of a particular race, a particular people, a particular religion, it s to accept the principles of american government, of democracy of liberty, and anybody can do that. and the children of illegal immigrants can do that, they can grow up to become good american citizens, there s no reason they can t. in fact the people in congress who are trying to change the 14th amendment, are in effect refuting what this senator from arizona says. if the 14th amendment doesn t apply to illegal aliens children, why do you have to change it in the first place. i said this to you before the break, it s like the scene in annie hall where they say, you know nothing about marshall mcluhan, i have marshall mcluhan right here. thanks for being with us. professor eric foner.
sense of a nation, it was a unified nation. was it highly politicized back then? some are arguing, you re demagoguing against chinese because of politics? the majority wanted to get race out of the definition of citizenship, they felt this was a legacy of slavery to limit one race or another race. they wanted to go to this universal notion of who can be an american. to be an american is not to be a member of a particular race, a particular people, a particular religion, it s to accept the principles of american government, of democracy of liberty, and anybody can two that. and the children of illegal immigrants can do that, they can grow up to become good american citizens, there s no reason they can t. in fact the people in congress who are trying to change the 14th amendment, are in effect refuting what this senator from arizona says. if the 14th amendment doesn t apply to illegal aliens