The others are here by permission of the United States.
Illegal entrants did not seek, nor did they gain, permission to enter.
Adherence to laws is not "subject to the jurisdiction." In other US Code, that is called "within the jurisdiction of," which is a lesser statement.
My point is that it cannot be the policy of the United States that people who meet less rigorous criteria can offspring a citizen, while naturalized citizens must go through the naturalization process.
Getting a parking ticket is not a warrant to produce a citizen.
-PJ
Forget all the mental gymnastics. The fact is that in theh 1820s-30s when my ancestors got off a big ship off the coast and went by small boat past Baltimore up the river into PA they had no immigration papers of any kind nor was it customary to have them. Before they were naturalized, some had babies with PA birth certificates. The interpretation at that time was that at birth they were citizens. Some of the immigrant parents eventually became naturalized citizens, some never achieved any papers. The same with some of their descendants in the 1940s-50s who came from Canada.
The fact is that pre-Pat Buchanan in the 1990s there was never any question at all that any all all babies born in the US were citizens by birth (except those of diplomats).
The fact is that this new twisting of the Constitution is new...very new for our 250 years.
In history we had the “No Nothings” we passed a law specifically against Chinese immigrants. At no time did those anti-immigrant groups have any other interpretation of the citizenship of the babies then that the babies were citizens. In fact, the fact that those babies were citizens was an argument against letting in the “unwanted”.
This new interpretation of the Constitution is not STRICT CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. A new Pernumba (sic) has been discovered.