All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and the state where they reside.
If the parents are here on passports, they are subject to the jurisdiction / country that issued their passports.
Mr. Wall is right. I hope for the best👍🏻
Let me simplify things for everyone, Democrats are a clear and present danger to the United States of America by virtue of their policy positions.
I agree. Let’s take this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Let’s change the law to require only persons born of two citizen-parents within the jurisdiction to be ‘birthright citizens.’ The rest keep their foreign citizenship until their parents become naturalized U.S. citizens or reach the age of 21 when they can apply for naturalization themselves.
If Repubs get control of Congress, maybe Congress could pass laws to stop the whole birthright/anchor baby citizenship mess. The filibuster would need to be suspended in the Senate however.
I don’t know if just issuing an Executive Order will do it.
Unfortunately, the Founding Fathers didn’t put clear language into the Constitution about what a natural born citizen is. The 14th Amendment may have been originally intended to deal with slavery, but it’s still part of the Constitution and it’s the law of the land.
As it stands now, if you’re a U.S. citizen, and you weren’t naturalized, then you’re natural born. I don’t think that’s the way it should be, but until we get a clear definition from Congress, a definition with no wiggle room, then we’re probably stuck with it.