In the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), the Supreme Court ruled that a person who
* is born in the United States
* of parents who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of a foreign power
* whose parents have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States
* whose parents are there carrying on business and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity of the foreign power to which they are subject
becomes, at the time of his birth, a citizen of the United States, by virtue of the first clause of the 14th amendment of the Constitution.
Legal immigration status is not required. Your liking the way the law is in this matter is not required. It remains true.
If you find it difficult to understand that this is the way the present law is, you will have to surmount that difficulty yourself. I no longer wish to discuss the matter. Take it up with your Congressman and Senators. Tell them you want that bill passed.
You must be really thick-headed!
If they were here legally, as was the case in the particular case that you cite, where do you see a linkage to children of illegals?
The case could not have addressed it because the issue was not present. Understand?????