2Parties
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Nope. It doesn't. If you track anyone's family lineage back far enough, you will find the original immigrants in their family (this is, of course, theoretical, since the records aren't available to literally track everyone's family back that far). At that point, you can ascertain whether or not they came to this country legally, thereby becoming legal citizens and conveying legal citizenship on their offspring.
Sounds like a very intrusive and expensive government project.
Now obviously, we aren't going to sit down and backtrack everyone's family history.
Why not? Why are some people treated differently?
I am a US citizen because, at some point in time, my ancestors came here by legally accepted means and became US citizens by legally accepted means, and all of the generations of my family thereafter were then born on US soil to US citizens.
And a child born to an illegal alien mother in the US borders is also a US citizen. You are not a citizen because your ancestors legality of citizenship and you know it.
All anyone is asking is that that be the case for everyone else claiming US citizenship by birth.
But it's not and you are not going to find a legal and logically consistent way around it.