It’s not necessary to amend the Constitution as it DOES NOT grant citizenship to illegals.. In the 1980’s INS decided that it was to expensive to deport all the children of illegals and congress has decided to just accept this as state policy. The 14th. amendment states that Any child born on American soil AND SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF is automatically a citizen. So what does SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF? To be born a SUBJECT means that you born born with a allegiance to America that you inherited from your PARENTS. You are automatically a citizen if your parents have allegieance to America. This has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme acourt a number of times. examples: Wong Kim Ark, Minor vs Happensett, Eng case. Liberals in this country have decided that if you furfill 1/2 of the requirements to be a citizen that’s close enough! Just like calling a person natural born with only one parent a American citizen ,sure it violates the Constitution , but what the hell! The constitution is just a old piece of paper ,RIGHT?
“no plausible distinction with respect to the 14th Amendment ‘jurisdiction’ can be drawn between resident aliens whose entry into the United States was lawful and resident aliens whose entry was unlawful”
It was the court that is responsible for giving INS the excuse for the practice of granting citizenship to children born here to non-citizen parents regardless of their immigration status.
“no plausible distinction with respect to the 14th Amendment ‘jurisdiction’ can be drawn between resident aliens whose entry into the United States was lawful and resident aliens whose entry was unlawful”
It was the court that is responsible for giving INS the excuse for the practice of granting citizenship to children born here to non-citizen parents regardless of their immigration status.