“And yes, by the fruit of the poison vine, those who derived their citizenship through extra-constitution means”
Anchor babies do not receive their citizenship through extra-constitutional means. You imply that because their parents reside here at the time of their birth illegally, their citizenship status is somehow poisoned. Only their illegal is a statutory matter, not a Constitutional matter. Also, the sins of the father are not visited upon their children.
Anchor babies arrive at citizenship by perfectly Constitutional means. They are citizens by right of the soil, regardless of how they came to be born on the soil, except of course if they weren’t under the jurisdiction of U.S. law at the time of birth. Which illegal aliens obviously are.
Bingo!
Had these post war statutes been reviewed by the SCOTUS the nature of the arguments would be greatly changed. Until and unless the SCOTUS finally addresses this collection of Federal District Court interpretations the fur will fly.