On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states ... slaves or in giving rights to black people. For this reason, the ...

Reconstruction Acts passed after the war called for Black suffrage in the Southern states ... which granted citizenship to all people born in the United States, including former slaves.

But the bottom line is clear: Nearly 1 out of every 9 people living in the United States illegally resides in the four-county region most Southern Californians call home. If the federal government ...