INS rules required that ~ the same INS that was administratively making the babies born to the illegal aliens into citizens (if they were asked).
Outside of the disparity of treatment of those here on visas versus those not here on visas, if those babies were American citizens why would INS require they be added to the family visa? Americans, after all, do need a visa to be here!
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They are citizens - born in the United States per the Fourteenth.