“Birthright Citizenship—automatically granted to all children born on US soil to parents who are not US citizens—is not grounded in the reality of the Constitution. And even though dual citizenship is now tolerated, the oath for US naturalized citizens specifically disallows allegiance to any other country.”
She’s right!
“Every Person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.”
Senator Jacob Howard,
co-author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, 1866.
Yeah, I hear what you’re sayin’, AuntB.
But along came Wong Kim Ark, born in the U.S.A. to Chinese immigrants who were subjects of the Emperor of China and couldn’t attain citizenship here, not because of something they had done, but because of a treaty. This treaty, between the Emperor of China and the U.S.A., disallowed the Emperor’s subjects from ever becoming U.S. citizens.
What the SCOTUS case of Wong Kim Ark decided was that if parents are legal residents permanently domociled in the U.S., then their children born here are considered ‘native born citizens (though NOT natural born citizens).
Gov. Bobby Jindal, Republican of Louisiana, was born to parents, citizens of India, only four months after their arrival in the U.S. But they were here legally, and so the Gov. is a native born citizen of the U.S. He cannot run for the office of the President as he is not a natural born citizen but he can be a U.S Senator or a state’s Governor.
‘Tis true, and you wouldn’t believe the amount of static I get over it!