Trump will announce end of birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants, officials say

[JoeB131]

If that last sentence were not true, would they have ruled the same?

With all the talk about "owing allegience" as being a part of "jurisdiction", it's hard to see they meant anything else.


Look at it like this, if they WANTED more immigration as you stated, then why would they have put ANY restrictions on it? Either through the 14th amendment or the Chinese exclusion act. If they were trying to increase immigration, they would have just said "anyone that shows up and takes the oath, is a citizen".

It's obvious that wasn't their intent.

They wanted plenty of immigration.... until the Chinese showed up.

Then they started passing crazy laws like the CEA and the Page Act. (The latter was ten years earlier and forbade the import of Chinese women.)