IIRC, birthright citizenship isn’t quite as cut and dried as it seems. My ex-spouse worked in a passport office, and there are some weird rules about things like how many years you have to have lived in the US depending on exactly where you were born and to which parents. I don’t remember all of them, but it’s not quite as cut-and-dried as “you’re a US citizen if you were born in the US”; you also have to be subject to US jurisdiction. So if you’re born in the US, but are raised entirely outside of the US, IIRC you might not be a citizen.
Everyone born on US soil is, by law, a US citizen. If you are within US territory, you are subject to US jurisdiction. That’s how jurisdiction works in every country on earth. The 14th Amendment does not carve out exceptions. You can be born here, and raised elsewhere, and still a US citizen. You remember wrong, and it is as cut and dried as it seems.
The Constitution restricts the power of the government. In this case, the 14th Amendment was created to restrict the power of the Supreme Court, which had already ruled that former slaves were not US citizens.
Don’t lecture me about knowing what words mean, when you don’t even know why the 14th Amendment exists.
Again - I don’t believe that’s correct. It a pregnant woman went into labor prematurely while vacationing in the US, and had a baby here, I don’t believe that child would be a US citizen.
If you are traveling in the US on a visa, and your child is born while you are here, your child is a US citizen by birthright. Whether you believe that to be correct or not doesn’t really matter.
IIRC, birthright citizenship isn’t quite as cut and dried as it seems. My ex-spouse worked in a passport office, and there are some weird rules about things like how many years you have to have lived in the US depending on exactly where you were born and to which parents. I don’t remember all of them, but it’s not quite as cut-and-dried as “you’re a US citizen if you were born in the US”; you also have to be subject to US jurisdiction. So if you’re born in the US, but are raised entirely outside of the US, IIRC you might not be a citizen.
Everyone born on US soil is, by law, a US citizen. If you are within US territory, you are subject to US jurisdiction. That’s how jurisdiction works in every country on earth. The 14th Amendment does not carve out exceptions. You can be born here, and raised elsewhere, and still a US citizen. You remember wrong, and it is as cut and dried as it seems.
Fascists used Ignore Civil Rights
The Constitution doesn’t regard civil rights.
Try knowing what words mean before you use them.
The Constitution restricts the power of the government. In this case, the 14th Amendment was created to restrict the power of the Supreme Court, which had already ruled that former slaves were not US citizens.
Don’t lecture me about knowing what words mean, when you don’t even know why the 14th Amendment exists.
God, dumb people are the worst. Some fuckers can’t even Google.
Nice rebuttal
You don’t need to rebut basic fact, reality is not a debate.
Again - I don’t believe that’s correct. It a pregnant woman went into labor prematurely while vacationing in the US, and had a baby here, I don’t believe that child would be a US citizen.
If you are traveling in the US on a visa, and your child is born while you are here, your child is a US citizen by birthright. Whether you believe that to be correct or not doesn’t really matter.