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The 14th amendment was passed in 1868 in response to Southern States "Black Codes" after the civil war. The "Black Codes" were state laws that kept black people from being totally free.
It was an amendment to the Constitution to ensure that all slaves in the U.S. and all their children were to be citizens.
It was never meant for ILLEGAL aliens to walk across the border and drop a kid out of their womb and be a "citizen" and then have the whole family brought in as part of "chain migration".
People these days are so uneducated about the Constitution and it's origins and meanings.
"Birthright Citizenship" isn't a part of the Constitution. And the reason that the amendment says "subject to the jurisdiction off the United States" is because it wanted to cover ALL former slaves...including slaves who were recently brought to the United States.
It's actually an amendment that should be repealed...much the way the 18th amendment was repealed by the 21st amendment.
There is no more need for slaves to be given citizenship. That is the distant past.
Politicians used that amendment in modern times to give citizenship to their ambassadors who had children abroad by proclaiming that the Embassy in a foreign country was "U.S. soil" (even though it legally isn't).
And most recently it has been used politically in the whole immigration debate.
What Trump is doing is pretty obvious.
He is going to do the Executive Order.
That will IMMEDIATELY trigger a liberal Judge to stop it.
Then it will go to the Supreme Court.
Then "Birthright Citizenship" will be ruled to be un-Constitutional.
Then it would be up to Congress to amend the Constitution to allow illegal immigrants to walk across the border and give birth to a new U.S. citizen...or not.
Who we vote for in Congress and the Senate is very important in these matters.
Whichever side of the debate you are on (and the Democrats until the last few years were ANTI-Illegal-Immigration)...you need to vote for the politicians who will do what you want them to do.
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