It was never meant to actually allow people who are here illegally to achieve legal status for their children by having them born here.
Look, my friends, if I'm a racist, this doesn't mean that I hate brown people
If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be given a ballot in a different language, does that not mean that one is also most likely unable to understand the debate that occurred prior to the decision one makes to vote?