Correct. Illegal alien children born in the US were routinely deported for 70 to 80 years after the Wong Kim Ark 1898 SCOTUS opinion.
Dr. Eastman who testified before Congress about on the issue of birthright citizenship states below:
"According to Eastman, the real shift in popular perception began to take root in the late 1960s, when the idea that mere birth on American soil alone ensured citizen status.
“I have challenged every person who has taken the opposite position to tell me what it was that led to this new notion,” he said. “There’s not an executive order. There’s not a court decision. We just gradually started assuming that birth was enough.”
Eastman attributes some of it to our nation’s loss of an intrinsic understanding of the language that the framers of the 14th Amendment spoke and used in that era, ergo a century later the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction” has been watered down in the collective American consciousness to require little more than an adherence to traffic safety laws. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2509715/posts
Eastman believes this loss of understanding is forgetting the meaning of the 14th Amendment. It is, but the reasons are sinister, which has been in play for 30 to 40 years since the Democrat party decidedly went far-left after the 1968 Dem presidential convention and when Nixon in 1972 destroyed ultra-liberal McGovern by 23 percentage points taking every state but Massachusetts .
After losing huge, the Dems went looking for manufactured voters and their votes for the obvious selfish reasons of perpetual incumbent power by having self induced amnesia, and they have successfully steered future executive branches to ignore the law by conflating the Wong Kim Ark opinion to include the illegal alien children as citizens. We all know how good the Demo Party is at choosing and picking which laws to enforce or not when they are in government. See the Obama Admin. for countless examples.
Eastman echo's my opinion about government acquiescence of their duty to enforce immigration laws.
" Eastman said. “The dynamic has changed now, and what we have done by having very low quotas on legal immigration and turning a blind eye to massive illegal immigration is to create this subclass and create this extraordinary drain on our social services that is bankrupting most of the state and local governments that are in the path of this migration wave. You foster an entitlement mentality but also an ignoring of the rule of law.” "
This idea (that Democrat Administrations/Judges/Officials, etc. would ignore the law to build up their constituencies) has the ring of truth about it.
Were it not so wrong, I would like to see Republican Administrations use the law as a tool to wipe out Democrat businessmen, politicians, media, etc. in a like retaliatory fashion.
As it is, they commit so many crimes per their routine, just enforcing the law normally would seem like a pogrom against them. :)