"We are not troubled with them at all" - that's how one lawmaker responded when asked in the #14thAmendment debates if children of immigrants should be citizens. Shows it was discussed, but not seen as a problem then.

#Immigration #uspol

https://ia801508.us.archive.org/26/items/DebatesThatLedToTheCreationOfTheFourteenthAmendment/Debates%20that%20led%20to%20the%20creation%20of%20the%20Fourteenth%20Amendment.pdf