A Somali U.S. citizen, Mubashir, was arrested by federal immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside Tuesday during a mass enforcement.
In the video, a federal officer is seen putting Mubashir in a choke hold and forcing him onto his knees in the snow as he was on his way to get food. Mubashir said he told officers multiple times that he is a U.S. citizen and asked if he could show them his I.D. Officers ignored him, dragged him in the snow and pushed him into a car as witnesses yelled and blew whistles, according to the video of his arrest.
The MAGAs are reading all kinds of stuff into those words, which are very clear.
I just heard a guy rationalizing all over the place, that the 14th was ONLY to make citizens of the newly freed slaves, because…it didn’t even include Native Americans, so how could we think it means people from other countries? What if an invading soldier from another country has a child in America, is the child a citizen? Etc.
If it was to mean all those nuances they want it to mean, them those things should have been written explicitly into the Amendment, but they weren’t. So modern MAGAs don’t get to decide that they get to rewrite past passed amendments to suit their racist demands, especially since even by their own definition, it was written to do something that they would be against (citizenship for slaves and their children).