If you are a LEGAL immigrant and you have a child yes it is an American, If you are ILLEGAL you and your child are illegal!
“If you are a LEGAL immigrant and you have a child yes it is an American”
Foreigners or aliens are excluded under the 14th amendment. It was solely for STATELESS newly freed ‘slaves’.
There is no law giving citizenship to children born to foreign nationals as far as I know. And congress is the only branch with the plenary authority of naturalization.
Not so fast! The quotation from one of the authors of the 14th Amendment states that children born to "aliens" would NOT be included. The term "alien" implies a LEGAL immigrant.
The notion that children born to an ILLEGAL alien would have this benefit would have been laughed out of court by anyone basing a decision on original intent.