“Why is that so hard for people to comprehend?”
If you read the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, that covers it really and needs nothing from Congress. The INA was used, a few times, to get rid of quotas and open up citizenship to other nations other than Europe. But it applies to defining what an alien has to do to become a citizen. And nothing in the INA applies to a person born in the US. So it withdraws itself from need and it is the only other document that can define citizenship requirements completely.
In Black’s Law Dictionary, natural born is defined as:
“someone who is “born within the jurisdiction.”
rwood
I have read the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment has nothing to do with natural born citizenship. It deals with granting citizenship to a specific group of people, that being former slaves. You're trying to apply it in a manner in which it wasn't designed.
Would you like a link to the Congressional Record where the Amendment was debated?
Congressional Debates of the14th Amendment to the United States Constitution
Particular notice to page 18/19. Find/Search citizen/citizens and slave/slaves throughout.
Pay attention as well to the first line of debate...
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
Mr. FESSENDEN. The joint committee, so called, on reconstruction have directed me to report, first, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
I don't even know why you're bringing it up.