It's a bit of a stretch, though, to think that nobody ever really considered what the 14th amendment meant before, until the great legal scholar Donald Trump came along and revealed the true meaning.
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More than a stretch, like so many of your posts it's completely false.
It has been debated over and over ever since it was enacted.
In 1993, Dem leader Harry Reid suggested exactly what Trump is saying.
In 2010 Rep Lindsey Graham did the same.
Both Clintons, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer and scores of other current pols have done the same at some point in their careers.
Here's the original author of the bill clearly explaining what it says.
The
U.S. Senate record of debate on the birthright citizenship clause shows that
Republican Jacob Howard proposed it on May 30, 1866. In his opening statement about this matter, he said:
This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.
The senators then discussed the meaning of the proposed language and voiced conflicting views about it. With regard to the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction,” Howard explained that:
the word “jurisdiction,” as here employed, ought to be construed as to imply a full and complete jurisdiction on the part of the United States, coextensive in all respects with the constitutional power of the United States, whether exercised by Congress, by the executive, or by the judicial department; that is to say, the same jurisdiction in extent and quality as applies to every citizen of the United States now. Certainly, gentlemen cannot contend that an Indian belonging to a tribe, although born within the limits of a State, is subject to this full and complete jurisdiction.
Regardless of which way you want to interpret it, anyone born to a foreigner (even a legally present foreigner) in a Sanctuary City/State is obviously not a citizen. This view hasn't popped up yet in the media as far as I know but eventually it will occur to someone and all hell will break loose. Sanctuaries will have to quickly reverse their status or be prepared for the most massive roundup and deportation ever seen.
The bulk of Latino US citizens alive in the US are facing deportation thanks to the over-reach of Dems buying votes.
