40 some years late but better than never.
I hope they also eliminate the DIV ‘diversity’ visa which is inherently unAmerican - it champions where you are from rather than who you are. We don’t have a ‘caste’ system in the USA and I hope we never do.
Two centuries and four SCOTUS cases, is ceremonial only and allows allegiance to a foreign state contrary to the oath.
SCOTUS each case, stated that it is up to Congress to enforce the US oath of naturalization.
If you can be arrested and tried in a US court, you are “subject to the jurisdiction”.
Every Amendment written after the Civil War, especially this one, was poorly written.
The sponsors of the 14th Amendment would agree with this bill.
Every liberal and Leftist believes the Constitution and the 14th Amendment are suicide pacts, and plenty of Republicans agree.
Introduced all these times previously
https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/1868/text/ih
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/140/text
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/140?s=1&r=9
Actually goes back to the ‘80s. At one time even Biden signed on.
Seems like the Republicants dangle it every coupla years as red meat to the rubes, but it never goes anywhere.
It took an act of Congress for Native Americans born within the borders of the U.S. to become citizens. That was because the Fourteenth Amendment didn’t make them citizens.
I have always believed that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” interpretation as applied to those who entered illegally does not go far enough.
As I see it, once entered on US soil, the illegal does not automatically gain all the rights of a born child of established US citizens.
To be gain those rights, one must have established residency in the state where the person entered. Depending on state’s requirements under its law, that can take 10-90 days of residency.
So in my view, birthright residency is not allowed.
It’s been my observation over the past few decades that Pubbies are at their rhetorical best a year out from elections and when their bills are DOA in a rat senate.