So, to make sure we're talking about the same thing, I'm talking about amnesty to illegals. The estimated number of illegals runs from 10 million to 20 million, depending on what expert you talk to.
Now, to answer the question you have posed, ask yourself "how does it affect the value of my dollar when the Fed dumps billions of dollars into the economy via Quantatative Easing and all their other tricks? If you can answer that question, then you should be able to extrapolate to the question "how does it affect my citizenship when the government dumps millions of illegals into the legal population base?".
Like I said, a clear violation of the Equal Protection intent of the 14th amendment. My citizenship is being devalued, illegally.
I know none of this will keep them doing what they are hell bent on doing, but, might as well go down fighting.
"... my citizenship is being devalued..."That's a novel concept.
Having more money in circulation does devalue the worth of your money because it devalues the worth of all money, you're correct there.
However the notion that having more people enjoying the same rights that you enjoy somehow devalues those rights makes no sense to me.
Your (our) citizenship is made up of a certain set of inalienable rights that are recognized by some governments and not by others.
In general, if there is a value assigned to our citizenship it would mean that American citizenship has a higher value than let's say North Korean citizenship because the government of North Korea does not protect those inalienable rights.
Now, unlike the dollar whose value is determined on a finite set of values, our rights are infinite; as Americans we believe that all human beings are born possessing those rights.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..." We're all born with those rights, irrespective of where we are born. Being an American means that those rights will be safeguarded and protected from violation.
If your argument that citizenship can actually be devalued by any means, then our citizenship today is worth just about a third of what it was worth in 1910, since there are about three times as many citizens today as there were then, and 99.1% less than it was at the time that our Constitution was drafted. Yet you don't have 0.009% of the rights that the American citizens of 1780 enjoyed.
That's simply not the case. You have the very same rights they did, in fact the number of constitutionally guaranteed rights have increased since then when you take things like the Emancipation Declaration, women's suffrage, the Civil Rights Act and others into consideration.
I get your frustration, but your XIV Amendment argument doesn't work for me.
