I call the tourist visa baby business ‘abuse’ because while these are legally US citizens, its abusing the intent of the 14th amendment. those who come here on tourist visas for the express purpose of having a baby, end up going back to their home country, and raising them in their own country. They are in effect ‘birthplace shopping’ for some future benefit. That’s not what those who wrote these provisions could have envisioned. Congress could perhaps legislate this out, if the SCOTUS allows it.
I’ve been in half a dozen discussions/ go arounds on Wong Kim Ark in the past week, so not caring to go over that ground. Whether good or bad decision, consider that it is precedent for 100 years. will it change? Good luck.
Not just citizens, they are, in the eyes of the vast majority (you included, I believe), "natural born citizens."
-- That's not what those who wrote these provisions could have envisioned. --
Now you're starting to sound like me, LOL. But, it (the 14th) says what it says, and what it says has been applied by SCOTUS in Wong Kim Ark. And IIRC, you conclude that what Wong Kim Ark stands for is that every person born on US soil (save diplomats' kids and some native Indians' kids) is a natural born citizen, by operation of the 14th amendment.