| Final-Fan said: Ending birthright citizenship? Good luck with that constitutional amendment. Are you going to make it retroactive too? I look forward to taking my test. |
It doesn't have to be a constitutional amendment.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
Illegal aliens aren't subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Therefore, their children are not citizens. If a liberal supreme court can find the right to abortions in the Constitution, a conservative one can easily dismiss the right to magic-dirt citizenship.
And what are you trying to say with that last part, that you're the child of illegal aliens?
| [edit: Alternatively, if you choose to argue that illegal aliens are not "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States", under what authority can they be deported?] |
They can be deported on the grounds of being hostile foreign agents in the country. Do we have jurisdiction over Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria? No, but we can still take military action upon people in those places.
