Many say that birthright citizenship is NOT what was intended in the 14th Amendment, and refer to the records of the Congressional debate which addressed that. The key phrase was "subject to the laws thereof." In the 19th century, they anticipated this problem, and in the debate about the amendment it was stated that children of foreign citizens born on US soil were subject to the laws of their parents' country.
The Amendment has been deliberately misinterpreted by those who favor massive immigration and dilution of the native citizenry. 20th and 21st century transportation makes the abuse of anchor babies possible in a way that could hardly have been imagined in the years after the Civil War when the 14th was written.
Dear Pearls:
You are precisely correct... the Fourteenth has been DELIBERATELY misinterpreted for a long time by both sides of the aisle. It was written for and in a time when nobody could have expected what is happening now.
I posted this on this thread earlier:
This abuse of the Fourteenth Amendment is probably the STUIPIDEST thing of all we are doing. It is beyond stupid, it is INSANE... nobody else in the world does what we do in this regard. I’ve worked in West Africa for a long time and I see it almost weekly that someone is planning to smuggle their pregnant wife to the U.S. to drop a kid so they can have dual citizenship. They plan it carefully including the timing to not visibly show, where they are going to go to have the baby, the doctor to deliver, an apartment to stay in or relatives to stay with. How does this make you feel?