https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/169/649/case.html
The money quote:
“All person born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Note, no mention of parentage. Born in the US confers US citizenship at birth, thus they do not need to be naturalized and a naturally born US citizens. That is the law of the land. Disagree with it all you want, but that IS the law of the land.
That’s your ‘money quote’? It says ‘Citizens’, not ‘natural born Citizens’. Care to try again?
There's also and subject to the jurisdiction thereof
, which brings up the question: are illegal immigrants subject to the jurisdiction of the united states? Foreign tourists?
But you bring up something else: even if the 14th unrestrictedly confers NBC status on those born here, Ted Cruz was not.
He was born in Canada, from whence, then, comes his citizenship?
The money quote: “All person born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/169/649/case.html The money quote: “All person born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
My Friend, if you live by the Wong Kim Ark, you can die by the Wong Kim Ark. You are not going to like this quote from Wong Kim Ark.
A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized ... by authority of Congress... as in the enactments conferring citizenship upon foreign-born children of citizens...
If I read that right, it says that if you are *NOT* born in the United States, you can only be a "naturalized" citizen.