“Subject to the jurisdiction thereof”
This is outstanding news.
Good precedent. Now for all the other anchor babies and their welfare-dependent parents.
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bad news for obama
Don’t get too excited. This applies to someone who was explicitly immune to U.S. law. Illegal immigrants have no such immunity.
That Vattel is cited shouldn’t mean much; no-one debates whether he was influential to America’s founding fathers. Vattel never uses the phrase, “natural-born citizen.” There’s little basis for the assertion that the French word, “naturel” means “natural-born citizen” as opposed to simply, “native.”
Don’t want people walking across the border, having pregnancy vacations, overstaying visas etc. We want our neighbors and new immigrants to be chosen by us — using rules and following reasonable traditions. Is that really too much to ask? And yeah, that includes ‘children of diplomats’ If white liberal ‘elites’ had their way, every person in the world who wanted to live here could just ‘move right in’...
WINNING!
MORE ICE PLEASE!!!!
They need to make sure that for any foreign student giving birth while in the United States on an educational visa that their spawn will NOT get American citizenship as well.
there was no revocation required... as there was never any legal citizenship to be granted.
i really wish people would read the FULL first sentence of the 14th.
Despite Congress’s clear intent to not create a completely universal and automatic birthright citizenship policy, the current application of the Citizenship Clause is so lax that the United States has a de facto universal birthright citizenship policy that denies U.S. citizenship by birth to no one.
There is no federal requirement that hospitals ask new parents if they are foreign diplomatic staff. State agencies do not instruct hospitals to differentiate between children born to diplomatic staff and those born to U.S. citizens or temporary or illegal aliens.
Hospitals need to be instructed by law to ask these questions.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) does not investigate whether SSN requests are for children of foreign diplomats.
We need to order them to do so.
Congress could require parents to have SSNs before a U.S. birth certificate or SSN is issued to a newborn.
This should be enacted immediately, and enforced, with no back doors for the Gavin Newsom types to get around it.
Actually, for denying a child of a foreign diplomat is a citizen, they could have relied on Wong Kim Ark. A decision that rejects Vattel. BTW - Vattel never mentioned NBC in his writings. It wasn’t MISTRANSLATED that way until 10 years AFTER the US Constitution was written! Vattel used the word “indigenes” - the indigenous people. Not NBC.
This decision clearly points out that 14th Amendment "birthright citizenship" can be revoked if the government has been acting in error in previously granting it.
Moncada relates solely to the case of a child born of an accredited diplomat who was born with diplomatic immunity to our laws and, therefore, was not born subject to United States jurisdiction.
Moncada was granted citizenship at birth in the mistaken belief that his father was a consular officer; an unaccredited diplomat. Later documentation was discovered showing that his father was an accredited diplomat.
No disturbance of centuries old law occurred.