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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to throw out the relevant fourteenth amendment language:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, [b]and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,[/b] are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

There are those who believe that the bolded language could be used to disqualify as citizens those born in the US whose parents are not legally in the U.S.

Could be a stretch.

I do know that the EU has raised a fuss about what they call "accidental Americans," those born in the US to European parents who have long left the US and have never claimed citizenship but get caught up in FATCA requirements for foreign bank reporting and taxes because of their US birth.[/quote]

If they aren't subject to our jurisdiction, how then can we bring them before our courts at all? They either are or they are not; you can't pick and choose for which things they are or aren't.[/quote]

This workaround has all sorts of immediately-obvious unforeseen problems.[/quote]

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