Wapasha
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No, they are not subject to US jurisdiction. Do they have to obey the laws concerning their conduct? Yes, but that is only a limited form of civil jurisdiction. They are not citizens of the US, they are still sovereign citizens of France, Spain, Jamaica, etc... The US government has no jurisdiction over them beyond the permission we extend to their visit in our country, and that we ask them to obey our laws concerning their personal conduct as it applies to them as a foreign visitor.If born in the US, and not the child of a foreign diplomat, automatically confers citizenship on the child.
Any other interp is bad law.
Anybody standing on US soil is subject to its jurisdiction, excepting foreign diplomats.
Can we demand adult male visitors from France be drafted into our military? No.
Can we demand they pay state and federal income taxes once they set foot on US soil? No
Can we annul their marriage because it violates US marriage laws? No. Because they are citizens of a foreign nation.
remember, just two years before the 14th amendment, they wrote:
The Civil Rights Act of 1866:
That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude...
Which is just another way of saying All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. A person who is a citizen of another nation is not a subject of the USA and not subject thereof, they are a subject of another nation.
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