Keep pulling the thread on 14th Amendment.
The 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause was adopted to grant citizenship to newly freed slaves and their children, not to the children of temporary visitors or illegal aliens.
The phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" in the 14th Amendment means "not owing allegiance to anybody else," according to Senator Trumbull, a framer of the clause.
The 14th Amendment was intended to embody the English common law rule that virtually everyone born on U.S. soil is a citizen.
The only exceptions to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment are for those with a "fiction of extraterritoriality," such as children of foreign diplomats, which is a closed set of exceptions.
The Supreme Court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark's controlling rule of decision precludes a parental domicile requirement for birthright citizenship.
Congress does not have the authority under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment to create new exceptions to birthright citizenship, as the clause sets a constitutional floor.
Project 2025 includes a plan for a potential Donald Trump administration to challenge the birthright citizenship of children born in the United States to non-citizen parents.
Cecilia Wong, Legal Director of the ACLU, stated her confidence that the Supreme Court will reject the president's effort to alter the 14th Amendment's rule on birthright citizenship.
Anthony Romero, National Executive Director of the ACLU, predicted that the organization will win its birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court with a definitive 7-2 vote.
Unrestricted birthright citizenship acts as a significant pull factor for illegal immigration into the United States.
The policy of birthright citizenship has created a "birth tourism" industry, attracting thousands of foreigners from potentially hostile nations to give birth in the United States.
The United States' policy of nearly unrestricted birthright citizenship is an outlier among modern nations, with every nation in Europe having a different rule.