If you look at the 14th Amendment and what the authors said, i.e. that the amendment was NOT going to grant citizenship to US born children of illegal aliens, then it does matter.
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Justice Gray who wrote that Wong Kim Ark opinion ignored the intent and meaning of the law makers. He even said so tersely in his 1898 opinion. Gray acted as an activist judge. And those trolls on this thread the 14th Amendment or did the WKA decision turn naturalized citizens [per 14th Amendment] into instant natural born citizen. That can't be done.
Mmm, hows that 14th amendment not granting citizenship to illegal aliens workin out for ya? Oh wait, you say it’s not? Shocker. You need another constitutional amendment to repeal the citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. That’s why people are clamoring for one. If it was as simple as you say (that children of illegals aren’t citizens), we wouldn’t be granting them citizenship at birth. We are.