The issue of the 14th Amendment and whether it conveys birthright citizenship just from being born on American soil has resurfaced in the context of the current debate on immigration and border security.
Like abortion rights, which were divined from the "Penumbras" and "Emanations" said to be lurking somewhere in that document, supporters of birthright citizenship say, well, the language is imprecise and the authors didn't really mean to exclude the offspring of Guatemalans born in states which didn't exist in 1868.
President Trump has once again noted the absurdity of the modern interpretation of the 14th Amendment that invented the concept of birthright citizenship for illegal aliens.
Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Wednesday, President Trump again threatened to end what he called the "Ridiculous" policy of birthright citizenship, which awards citizenship automatically to those born in the United States.
During debate on the Fourteenth Amendment, Sen. Jacob Merritt Howard of Michigan added jurisdiction language specifically to avoid accident of birth being the sole criteria for citizenship.
If citizenship was determined just by place of birth, why did it take an act of Congress in 1922 to give American Indians birthright citizenship, if they already had citizenship by birthright under the14th Amendment?
The Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled that the children of illegal aliens must be granted automatic birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment and many legal scholars dispute the idea.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/trump_challenges_birthright_citizenship.html
Like abortion rights, which were divined from the "Penumbras" and "Emanations" said to be lurking somewhere in that document, supporters of birthright citizenship say, well, the language is imprecise and the authors didn't really mean to exclude the offspring of Guatemalans born in states which didn't exist in 1868.
President Trump has once again noted the absurdity of the modern interpretation of the 14th Amendment that invented the concept of birthright citizenship for illegal aliens.
Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Wednesday, President Trump again threatened to end what he called the "Ridiculous" policy of birthright citizenship, which awards citizenship automatically to those born in the United States.
During debate on the Fourteenth Amendment, Sen. Jacob Merritt Howard of Michigan added jurisdiction language specifically to avoid accident of birth being the sole criteria for citizenship.
If citizenship was determined just by place of birth, why did it take an act of Congress in 1922 to give American Indians birthright citizenship, if they already had citizenship by birthright under the14th Amendment?
The Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled that the children of illegal aliens must be granted automatic birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment and many legal scholars dispute the idea.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/trump_challenges_birthright_citizenship.html
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