Birthright citizenship not required by the US Constitution?

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The following article is most interesting and thought-provoking. "Is it time to re-open the birthright citizenship debate?" It’s an old question. And Europe answers it differently. Michael Anton has caused a furor by suggesting that birthright citizenship is not required by the US Constitution, as Fuzzy Slippers has previously discussed on this blog. Anton is quoted as having said this on Tucker Carlson’s show: You have to read the whole 14th Amendment. There’s a clause in the middle that people ignore or they misinterpret — “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” — ‘thereof’ meaning of the United States. What they’re saying is, if you’re born on US soil subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, meaning you’re the child of citizens or the child of legal immigrants, then you are entitled to citizenship. If you’re here illegally, if you owe allegiance to a foreign nation, if you’re the citizen of a foreign country, that clause does not apply to you. Reasonable people can certainly differ on whether that is the case or not. But Anton also said this: continue: https://realityanddenial.blogspot.com/2018/08/birthright-citizenship-not-required-by.html