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> I ask you to consider all this partially in jest and partially in earnest. What is jesting is any expectation that we would in fact enact such a citizenship agenda. But the jest is meant to make plain that some of the people now called "citizens" are far less worthy of citizenship in this civic republican sense than some of the people now called "undocumented" or "illegal" or "anchor babies." And in any case, the children of those undocumented people, born here just like any other native-born Americans, should be assumed to be no less or no more deserving of their status, no less or more capable of contribution, than anyone else.