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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’“