Not familiar with most of those cases, but Van Ark comes up a lot and I did read up on that one. In that case Van Ark was denied to be a citizen, though born in the US. IIRC, the issue was ‘native’ born vs ‘natural born’.
I do agree that legally anyone born in the US is a native born citizen, but a ‘Natural born’ citizen is a separate issue.
I also would favor a change in the law that would require one parent to be either a citizen, or legal resident, of the country for the child to be considered a citizen. I’m
You are right. It is absolutely insane to consider every person born in the U.S. (with a few exceptions) a citizen of the U.S. For the life of me, I cannot explain why the 14th Amendment has not been updated, to, as you say, require at least one parent being a U.S. citizen at the time of their offspring’s birth in this country.
Van Ark is a Wisconsin state case, if I am not mistaken.