[JCBreckenridge]

It doesn’t matter where the parents are from - the children born in America are American citizens.

[muawiyah]

You might think that ~ it is a popular belief ~ but you can't back it up with either a law nor a USSC decision.

Not too long ago ~ the reign of Jorge Bush II in fact, when the US still allowed foreign visitors to use a family visa, the offspring born here WERE NOT TREATED AS US CITIZENS!

So why did they do that?

[Rides3]

It doesn’t matter where the parents are from - the children born in America are American citizens.

Not true at all.

1883, Secretary of State Frelinghuysen determined that a man applying for a U.S. passport, though born in the U.S., was not born a U.S. citizen because he was subject to a foreign power at birth having been born to a non-citizen father.

1885, Secretary of State Bayard determined that ‘the son of a German subject, born in Ohio, was not a citizen under the statute or the Constitution, because “he was on his birth ’subject to a foreign power,’ and ‘not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States’“