I disagree.
14th Amendment
Section 1. All persons 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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The key phrase is "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" A child born to foreigner parents is subject to the jurisdiction of their parents' country(s), not of ours. Otherwise every ambassador's wife would be getting knocked up and delivering here.
Somewhere along the line we lost sight of that clause. We merely need to start enforcing it again.
The problem is that "jurisdiction" not clearly defined. It obviously doesn't mean citizen or permanent resident of the US, otherwise there could be no naturalized citizens, so even if we exclude children of illegals, would it include children of guest workers or children of people on tourist or student visas?
Because the wording is ambiguous, it has been taken advantage of by illegals and their advocates.
Ok
this is interesting
“The key phrase is “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” A child born to foreigner parents is subject to the jurisdiction of their parents’ country(s), not of ours. Otherwise every ambassador’s wife would be getting knocked up and delivering here.’
surely this has been brought up before
or maybe we just didn’t want to bring it up
Honestly I am not worried about an ambassador’s wife using an anchor baby to bring many more though chain migration and then all of them raping our benefits.
If they are an ambassador’s wife they can probably feed and care for their own
BUT back to your point
I wish someone would bring this up and see how it goes
My Senator Cruz is the very one and if it has merit he will bring it up
thanks for the idea
A person in the U.S., be they citizen or foreigner, are subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. If they rob a bank, kill an person, or commit any other crime then they can, and will, be arrested, tried, and jailed. The exception are people like the ambassador's wife you mentioned who enjoy diplomatic or any other form of immunity that prevents them from being held accountable to our laws.