This was about slaves. And if you take a look. Slaves. We're talking about slaves from the Civil War. And if you take a look at when it was filed, All of this legislation, all of this everything having to do with birthright citizenship, it was at the end of the Civil War. The reason was it had to do with the babies of slaves and the protection of the babies of slaves. (29:38–29:46)
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