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People from entering the united states. >> the framers never had illegal aliens in mind because at the time there were no illegal aliens. there were no immigration laws. but they did have immigrants in mind. >> absolutely. >> and children of immigrants. >> plenty of immigrants and the supreme court said it applied to the children of chinese, children of japanese. later on, chinese were excluded from coming into this country, japanese were. but those here, who had children, still their children were recognized as citizens. those who were immigrants who could never become citizens, it was widely...

Citizenship for the united states. not just as it was before the war, where each state kind of declared who was going to be a citizen, the civil war created a 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 pa...

Immigrants. the supreme court later rules it applied to the children of chinese, japanese. later on, chinese were excluded from coming into this country. japanese were, but those here who had children still, their children were recognized as citizens, among the japanese, the nissei and essei, they could never become citizens, but it was universally accepted that their children were citizens. >> when people argue this was only based on african-american, that's not true? >> that's completely false. they were trying to set up after the civil war a new standard of citizenship for the united states...

The united states. >> technically when someone says the framers never had illegal aliens in mind, because at the time there weren't illegal al n aliens, there were no immigration laws, they did have immigrants in mind and the children of immigrants. >> there were plenty of immigrants. the supreme court later rules it applied to the children of chinese, japanese. later on, chinese were excluded from coming into this country. japanese were, but those here who had children still, their children were recognized as citizens, among the japanese, the nissei and essei, they could never become citizens...