US Presidential Election - Monitoring Swing States

[Final-Fan]

StarDoor said:

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?

To answer the last question first:  facetiously supposing that an amendment was passed abolishing the establishment of citizenship at birth, which also acted retroactively, all citizens who had enjoyed natural-born status until that time would need to become citizens—hence, I would need to take a citizenship test.  In other words, I was joking. 

Regarding your main point, I already addressed that issue with my edit, which you may not have noticed:  "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?"

In other words, since they are in our country and (unlike, for instance, foreign diplomats) subject to our laws, they are ipso facto "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" and their children born here are citizens.