“I didn’t think that was ever an issue, since the parents are in the US legally.”
It is an issue because the 14th was clear. The author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment was crystal clear. It didn’t include foreigners or aliens. Whether here legally or illegally.
The court, through wong kim ark, made children born to foreign nationals, who were legally here, U.S. citizens at birth. So those children are court created citizens. CINOS. Citizens in name only, since only congress can naturalize citizens.
Just read it again..
And I’ll have to agree with you. I guess, even back then, we had some activist judges.
I think the biggest hurdle is going to be the Left’s argument of, Jus Soli. Again, a courtroom decision, that has somehow become “settled law”, even though the judiciary does not have the ability to do so. But, then again, Kennedy did it and, of course, since it went the way the Left wanted it to, they didn’t burn down a city near you or me.
But for me, Birthright Citizenship is the one and only thing that keeps these people coming. They all know that they can’t get benefits, but the kids they give birth to, in a US hospital gets them all.