I think ...”and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” may account for military bases, but from what I’ve read, the authors, in writings meant to clarify their intent, stated specifically that the 14th was NOT meant to grant citizenship to aliens. It’s primary purpose was to deal with slaves, the Indian nations, and diplomats.
I agree with you. The problem is that repeal also brings back the slavery issue again. The reason they worded it the way that they did was to close the loopholes.
If you could import fixed labour and keep labour there for generations, without the labour gaining the rights of citizenship, some will take advantage of these provisions.
This is what we have to remember as conservatives. Every change has unintended consequences. The desire is to bar people from gaining citizenship at birth from coming over the border illegally. The problem is that the current law does it the way they do it by putting it at birth, because that is the superior option to everything else.
Take the ‘of birth’ part out and human garbage will import slaves into America. Slaves that have no recourse, ever.
It will also prove a barrier to integration. If second generation immigrants cannot be granted citizenship despite being born in America, it removes much of the impetus of acquiring citizenship.
It also gives you a well meaning but cheap labour pool with no status or obligations in America. This isn’t a good thing.