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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are all posting as if children are born only to citizens or undocumented noncitizens. We have always had a lot of legal residents who are not citizens. Their children have always been citizens at birth. For a lot of our history, many foreign born women did not bother becoming naturalized even if they lived here for 30 years or more. [/quote]

Legal foreign residents who have kids on U.S. soil was literally the crux of the Wong Kim Ark case. His parents were legal permanent residents when he was born here.

That’s the [i]only[/i] thing that should be considered precedent.

Which, past “controlling” cases can and have been upended  by the supreme court over multiple decades of court sessions.

But the entire basis of the argument that birthright citizenship for the kids of undocumented citizens doesn’t need to be changed with a constitutional amendment is [i]because[/i] Wong Kim Ark was [i]not[/i] in any way, shape, or form—about the children lf undocumented immigrants. It was only about the child of legal permanent residents.

But IMHO the issue is kids of illegal migrants who have to cross illegally because thry don’t have the qualifications necessary to come legally— not kids of permanent residents who have to jump through hoops to qualify for that status and are often economic boons.

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