[LTC.Ret]

This is illegitimate and should go away immediately!!!

[marron]

I’ve known people like this. They never lived in the US, nor intended to, but when things unraveled in their home country and they were forced to flee, they just got on a plane and went. Their friends were having to struggle with immigration lawyers and years of legal hassles, but for them it was seamless. It was the greatest gift their parents could have given them.

I don’t agree with the concept, but I totally understand why people want the blue passport in their safety deposit box.

[taxcontrol]

One possible path to settle this:

Congress, using its enumerated authority to establish a uniform rule of naturalization,

1) Confers immediate US citizenship automatically to anyone born in the US, having two US citizen parents at the time of birth;

2) Confers conditional US citizenship to anyone born to a single US parent, regardless of location, US soil or otherwise. Full US citizenship conferred upon residing in the US for no less than 10 years prior to the 18th birthday or 5 years if residence is after 18th birthday

3) Confers NO US citizenship to those born on US soil that does not have at least one US citizen parent at the time of birth.

[Tennessee Nana]

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

14th Amendment

That “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” bars illegal aliens from claiming citizenship...

if you are breaking our laws to be here, and during the time you give birth, then you are NOT under the jurisdiction of our sovereign country, and cannot claim citizenship for your new child...

[Little Ray]

If one of the parents is not an American Citizen, the child should not be an American Citizen, no matter where it is born.

There is no “magic dirt” that makes someone an American Citizen.

[EC Washington]

My Cousin was a nurse in Tucson, Az - Non-US Parents & kids born at the Hospital were about 90% versus 10% kids born to American parents.

[shanover]

Needs to end NOW! One of the greatest threats to the Republic is its demographics.