In fact, Senator Jacob Merritt Howard of Michigan proposed the addition of the phrase specifically because he wanted to make clear that the simple accident of birth in the United States was not sufficient to justify citizenship.
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This applied to ALL children of ALL foreigners until Wong Kim Ark in 1898.
The Supreme Court decided to stretch the 14th to cover the children of legal residents.
They did confer citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.
There is no way that the children of foreigners could ever be considered natural born citizens.
EXACTLY!!