The "anchor babies" are declared citizens through action of an erroneous interpretation of law. That same State Department letting in the Mexicans for so many years had earlier administered the law far differently.
BTW, the "agencies of government" do not rule from the Constitution ~ just the statutes and court decisions, so the 14th Amendment is not involved in any of this.
The “anchor babies” are declared citizens through action of an erroneous interpretation of law. That same State Department letting in the Mexicans for so many years had earlier administered the law far differently.
BTW, the “agencies of government” do not rule from the Constitution ~ just the statutes and court decisions, so the 14th Amendment is not involved in any of this
The 14th Amendment is precisely the reason why anchor babies are US Citizens at birth: “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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
The landmark US Supreme Court testing the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment was the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark from 1898. In a 6-2 decision the Supreme Court held that the Chinese immigrant Wong Kim Ark was a citizen at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment. A child born in the United States of parents of foreign descent who, at the time of the child’s birth are subjects of a foreign power but who have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States and are carrying on business in the United States, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under a foreign power, and are not members of foreign forces in hostile occupation of United States territory, becomes a citizen of the United States at the time of birth.