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American law firm expertly explains why The Supreme Court will likely strike down Birthright Citizenship
“The Supreme Court is going to decide one of the most important cases in history, the case of birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment states that all persons born here subject to the jurisdiction thereof become citizens. Paraphrasing. The key term there is subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
If you take out that sentence, the clause of the 14th Amendment still works. That sentence is there for a reason.
The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War, and it was meant to make black slaves become citizens, but you still had to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, meaning you still had to be in the United States legally. Your allegiance still had to be to one country, to one flag.
The whole controversy is that you have people literally crossing the border or overstaying their visas. They're here illegally. They're not subject to the jurisdiction thereof because the United States terminated your jurisdiction.
You don't have any access here, but you're having a child here, and now that child becomes a lifelong citizen. Then that child is able to bring his entire family from the country that he's in, and all of them can become citizens as well.
I think that's insane. I don't think that's been working. I don't think the people of America want that. They didn't vote for that, and I think that it's not the original intent of the 14th Amendment.
There's a good chance that if the justices stick to the original intent of the statute, that this is going to get struck down in its current form”