(10-30-2018, 09:41 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(10-30-2018, 03:11 PM)TJBender Wrote: Being of a foreign diplomat is one things, but the author even specifies that *the person in question* must be an immigrant or alien, not their parents. Someone born on US soil has not, at any point in their lives, been an alien or immigrant, therefore they are a citizen by birth. This isn't a question of settled law. It's written in the damn Constitution, and a President attempting to circumvent the Constitution by way of executive order then acting upon that unconstitutional order is impeachable, hopefully imprisonable and/or deportable.

Are you that crazy? A president writing an executive order is not committing a "high crime or misdemeanor" no matter how unconstitutional the executive order is. The courts will stop it, and Trump knows that. This is only a way of getting a dialog started.

As far as someone born in the US automatically being a US citizen, aren't the children of foreigners considered citizens of their home country?. Aren't those children subject to the jurisdiction of their parents' country? So what you are claiming is the Constitution grants automatic dual citizenship of foreigners' children.

I know that children of US citizens born abroad are considered US citizens. Are there nations that refuse to grant citizenship if the parents are in a foreign country when their child is born?