Posted on 08/21/2025 5:04:21 AM PDT by GailA
Birthright Citizenship: A Fundamental Misunderstanding of the 14th Amendment https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/birthright-citizenship-fundamental-misunderstanding-the-14th-amendment
Rot roh! Liberals to have nuclear meltdown in 3...2...1...
It is not a “misunderstanding”. It is a purposeful distortion.
Whoops time to throw Alfalfa Harris out. She shouldn’t have been able to run last time.
What is the purpose of a foreign embassy in the USA is people who travel here are not subject to the jurisdiction thereof?
What is the purpose of a foreign embassy in the USA if people who travel here are not subject to the jurisdiction thereof?
Is the ruling limited to children of diplomats?
My son was born in the US Naval Hospital, Subic Bay Philippines.
He has a Birth Certificate issued by the US State Department and one issued by Olongopo Zambales. He held dual citizenship. He never exercised the elements of the Philippine citizenship.
Yes, the 9th Circuit upheld a decision holding that a guy born in NYC was not entitled to birthright citizens.
What the blurb and headline don't mention is that this particular guy was the children of Nicaraguan embassy personnel and entitled to diplomatic immunity. That is the one classification on which there has always been agreement that birthright citizens does not attach.
From the actual case:
Moncada was born in New York City in July 1950, when His father, a Nicaraguan national, was working for Nicaragua’s permanent mission to the United Nations. For nearly seventy years, Moncada lived and worked in the United States as an American citizen. Five times he subscribed the oath of allegiance, and five times the government issued him a passport. In 2018, however, the government revoked his passport, telling him he did not acquire birthright citizenship because his father held diplomatic immunity when Moncada was born.
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2025/08/20/23-55803.pdf
Thanks for the link.
A member of the diplomatic staff of a foreign country can leave the employ of that country but remain in the U.S., at least temporarily, until their baby is born.
The Ninth Circuit would probably say that that baby’s a U.S. citizen under the 14th Amendment.
Yes. A true nothing urger hyped up by the GP for clicks.
“was not entitled to birthright citizens.”
How many birthright citizens did he want? :)
“Children of foreign diplomats” is right there in the title of the article: “Biden-Appointed Judge Shockingly Rules Against Birthright Citizenship — Ninth Circuit Says Children of Foreign Diplomats Are NOT Automatically U.S. Citizens.”
My daughter was born at Ancon Army Hospital in Panama. Same deal, she has a Certificate of Birth Abroad. One copy. They told us to guard it with our lives because it’s virtually impossible to replace.
I’ve read that the children of foreign diplomats have historically never been granted US citizenship if born here. So that’s a pre-existing precident showing that US birth does not automatically confer US citizenship as some have said.
Biden-Appointed Judge Shockingly Rules Against Birthright Citizenship — Ninth Circuit Says Children of Foreign Diplomats Are NOT Automatically U.S. Citizens.
This is a shock only to the legal experts at Gateway Pundit. For others, it is what the author of the citizenship clause stated upon introduction of the Citizenship Clause. It is not shocking that the Court ruled that the child of an accredited diplomat who held diplomatic immunity does not become a citizen of the United States at birth. To enjoy birthright citizenship the child must be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, i.e., subject to its laws. A child born with diplomatic immunity from U.S. laws is not born a citizen of the United States.
Senator Jacob Howard upon his introduction of the 14th Amendment clause in the Senate:
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.
The same for those on vacation in America when a baby is delivered. Illegal aliens are visiting. Most have no plans to be naturalized. Their failures to appear in Court is the prime evidence. Just vacationers.
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