Regardless of what this Erler fellow says, the 14th Amendment is vague on this issue and the accepted interpretation is that all people born on US soil with a few exceptions are citizens. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly INS) training materials say people born here are citizens even if both parents are illegals. That's just the accepted law that just about everyone at your local immigration office or immigration court will take for granted. We need to just go ahead and push to amend the 14th Amendment so that there can be no mistake about who is a citizen at birth and who isn't.
“We need to just go ahead and push to amend the 14th Amendment so that there can be no mistake about who is a citizen at birth and who isn’t.”
I’ll go further and say that this is the `linch-pin’ to immigration reform. Until this is done, any “comprehensive immigration reform” will just be a repeat of 1986.
We will just be kicking this can down to the road to our children with the difference being, of course, that they will see that we made the same mistake, but a second time. And that’s one definition of insanity.