[HighFlier]

The amendment has been misused for years. The wording is sufficient for the removal of our present day birthright citizenship.

And the original intent was not the way it is used today - anchor babies - it was to ensure former slaves were given citizenship.

Really, this amendment should have had an expiration clause, but the authors couldn't have for seen the mess we have today.

[Killborn]

So should legal immigrants born here be granted citizenship?

[Caesar Soze]

And the original intent was not the way it is used today - anchor babies - it was to ensure former slaves were given citizenship.

Absolutely correct, although I suspect the luminaries on the Supreme Court may disagree with you, and they appear to be the final arbiters of Constitutional questions. Sections 2-5 of the Fourteenth Amendment use the word "shall," imposing a future obligation upon the government. The first sentence of section 1 uses "all persons [...] are citizens," which rectifies the injust conditions that existed when it was ratified, but does not impose any future or standing obligation upon the government. An originalist, literalist, strict constructionalist, whatever would not find any support for granting citizenship to "anchor babies" in this amendment.

[Eaker]

but the authors couldn't have for seen the mess we have today.

The Founders would not have put up with this invasion.