[pgyanke]

“Every Person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.”

--Senator Jacob Howard, co-author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, 1866.

[tanknetter]

That quote from Senator Howard really says it all, doesn’t it?

And, thanks to the King vs Burwell decision we have recent precedent, loved by the Left, that legislative intent is a critical component of understanding law.

[Wallace T.]

Until 1924, American Indians were not considered citizens of the United States, even though all were born within its limits. The reason for the exclusion was that they were considered to have their primary loyalty to the tribal nation to which they were born. As with foreign nations, the United States, as well as states like North Carolina and New York, engaged in treaties with these nations. In that sense, the Indian nations were as much foreign entities as Britain or Mexico. The purpose of granting American Indians citizenship was to facilitate their integration into mainstream American life.

If people here illegally hold citizenship in a foreign country, they are, like the Indians, considered to have their primary allegiance to that country, not the United States. Therefore the child is no more a citizen than the child of two Apaches born in 1890.

This is what Senator Howard meant when he excluded "persons born the United States who are foreigners, aliens...".