Ah, but their parents aren't mentioned now are they?
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Looks like the court is upholding that exactly as written, now isn't it my little *******...
Again, if the Constitution was meant to say what you claim, there is no purpose or reason for "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" ...it would simply state that "all persons born in the US are citizens." Since it doesn't say that, we have to look at what it means... "subject to jurisdiction" is not referring to geographic jurisdiction, it is political allegiance... and even your beloved Wong case recognized this. I point this out to you and you just keep yammering the same stupid shit like a little shit-drone.
Even the person who WROTE the 14th said it did not apply to illegal aliens.
Link (not that it matters a damn)? And although the "subject to" does matter, illegals here
are "subject to", which ***** you completely. Regardless of what you believe, if the baby is born here and is not part of the very few exceptions, then it is "subject to" and therefore an American citizen, automatically.
In the case of Wong, he was born here and "subject to", period. That is all that mattered...
What ‘Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’ Really Means
In Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1998) the court said “jurisdiction is a word of many, too many, meanings.” Therefore, it is important to discover the operational meaning behind “subject to the jurisdiction” as employed under the Fourteenth Amendment rather then assuming its meaning from other usages of the word jurisdiction alone. Both Sen. Trumbull and Sen. Howard provides the answer, with Trumbull declaring:
The provision is, that ‘all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.’ That means ‘subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof.’ What do we mean by ‘complete jurisdiction thereof?’
Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means.
Illegal aliens do not meet the criteria. Sorry!
Tell me, how does a baby have allegiance? Oh wait, they don't have one meaning, they cannot be denied citizenship based upon that. And notice, this Constitutional Amendment mentions nothing about the parents, which is why Wong, born to two Chinese nationals, was considered to have allegiance only to America. Now what, hot shit?
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All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."