Quote:I think a better way of saying it is that: if subject to the jurisdiction of this country a child would not have been born in this country then we shouldn't have to confer citizenship to said child in the same vein if his parents were here within the myriad of legal statuses.  

You can only twist the meaning of the Constitution so far before you've turned the thing upside down.

 

No legislation to eliminate birthright citizenship would ever hold up in court. The Fourteenth Amendment, plain as day, guarantees it. The only way to eliminate birthright citizenship is another amendment, and I sincerely doubt you'd find enough states willing to ratify an amendment based upon xenophobia and racism to push it through.

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