(10-30-2018, 12:57 PM)B2hibry Wrote:

(10-30-2018, 12:14 PM)mikesez Wrote: Illegal immigrants are under US jurisdiction. the only people not under us jurisdiction for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment are diplomats and the Security Services that come with them. See US v Wong Kim Ark, 1898.

US v Wong, Supreme Court established jurisdiction by... "still enjoying a permanent domicil and residence therein at San Francisco". As previously mentioned, this has not been tested as it should and most definitely time to test and clean up the murky waters of immigration.

US v Wong Kim Ark was a case involving a child born in the US to naturalized parents who returned to China, and then had difficulty getting back into the United States because of questions about his status, correct?  His parents were not illegally in the country when he was born from what I understand.  

The 14th Amendment should be tested, and this is a good opportunity to do so.  I know the left is losing their innards over this because they see the risk of losing potential voters, but the way the Amendment is written, and how it's been reinterpreted over time so that they can get new democrat voters.  It's funny to see the left howling over judicial activism when that's pretty much been their go to move for decades to get things pushed through.  Turn it around on them and suddenly Trump is some dictator.  Odd, they didn't howl in the same manner when Obama changed immigration law using the same process.

If the left is confident enough that they're right on the interpretation of the Amendment, they should welcome a test to support their views.

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