The older scam was to walk across the border at San Ysidro, take a taxi to Harbor General in Torrance timed so that they were going into labor, and present at the ER there.
Too far to send them back to Tijuana, so HG would take them in, kid would be born, and MamaCita gets a U.S. birth certificate for El Nino precioso.
Free of charge of course since they were indigent.
IIRC, the 14th Amendment was passed to protect freed slaves from claims against their citizenship. It was never meant to be a citizenship free-for-all.
The key phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is supposed to filter out foreign citizens from the birthright provision. When the Mexican government recently announced that illegals in the U.S. retain their full Mexican citizenship, that settled the issue.
A simple “sense of the Congress” declaration should be enough. While they’re at it, maybe a clarification of “natural-born citizen” could be passed at the same time?