We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.
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When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.
These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen's ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.
Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish.
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.
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