Born an Alien: A response to Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship

Alright full disclosure: my parents were illegal immigrant's. Currently they have all thankfully managed to acquire legally acquire full citizenship through amnesty, but their means of entrance into this country was less than legitimate. With the consideration that I may be a "bit" biased with regards to this matter, I find myself needing to articulate my thoughts on just how absurd this proposition is. It appears that Mr. Trump has not studied U.S history, or at least has forgotten any part of it that wasn't the U.S being a "winner". Here's a refresher course for him, and anyone else who has not taken a class recently: Birth-right citizenship is an important pillar of American society. When I say American, I don't just mean the U.S, I mean it in continental terms. For the most part, every country on the American continent, north and south, have birthright citizenship. It came about as a necessity when the countries were freed from their colonial ties, as the only thing that could tie the newly minted nation together. There were people of all kinds within the new country, so Old-World ideas of nationality did not apply. No longer were you an Italian, or an Englishman; If you were born in America, you were an American.  To consider abolishing birth-right citizenship, would be to destroy one of the foundations of American society. Not only that, but the connection between birth-right citizenship and the establishment of slavery in the 14th amendment, make this a legal nightmare for the constitution revering far-right that Trump tends to pander to. Trump's messages reek of hypocrisy. In a nation built by immigrants, how can you reject more immigrants? How can you criticize Bernie Sanders for "turning this country into Denmark", when you yourself are attempting to follow in the footsteps of the anti-immigrant Denmark, and other more conservative European countries? Underneath the cover of "law and order" Trump, and other anti-immigration conservatives hide a prejudice against a certain type of immigrant, a type that doesn't "belong" at least in their view. I hate to generalize conservatives like this, because "some, I assume, are good people" but with Trump being the front runner in the Republican polls, it is unsettling to consider how many people in this country consider me a parasite, an invader into their ideally racially-homogeneous paradise, simply because I had the gall to break the law and....be born here? The elephant in the room is how Trump plans to stop illegal immigration, because that wall, if it ever does get built, is stopping nobody. Trump seriously thinks he's going to "negotiate" with America's second largest trade partner, and the second largest North American state, into paying for a useless 2100-miles wall. He also apparently thinks that, by making Legal migration harder to achieve, that illegal immigration will go down. Here's a newsflash: the only reason so many come here illegally is because it is already so hard to get here legally. We demand that our closest neighbor acquire visas to cross the border, while they do not require the same of us, nor us of some countries overseas. Frankly it is an insult, and Visa requirements are remnant of a more racially-oriented age. So no, Trump, your plan will not work; your wall will not stop anybody; Mexico will not pay for it; people will still come here illegally, especially if you raise the price of legal migration; and ending birth-right citizenship is such an affront to the American tradition, that one can only hope that you are never given the opportunity to even propose such a change. To end birthright citizenship would mean people like me would never have a chance to contribute to this country. What am I to you Trump? Am I a Freshman in college, studying to become a Mechanical Engineer, and hopefully get a nice job, live a nice life, etc. Or, maybe because my parents came here illegally, from a place you do not hold in high-regard (which is beautiful by the way, please never visit, you might decide to build golf courses there), maybe I am most likely a "rapist" or maybe I sell drugs, commit violent crimes. Who knows.