Birthright Citizenship - It's NOT in the Constitution

Republican Senator Calls Out NBC for 'Selectively Omitting Key Words' From Constitution During Trump Interview

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, criticized NBC News for leaving out key parts of the 14th Amendment during an interview with President-elect Donald Trump. Lee accused the network of “selectively omitting” important words to shape the discussion on birthright citizenship.

Trump, in the interview on NBC’s "Meet the Press," confirmed plans to end birthright citizenship “on Day One.” He called the policy “ridiculous.”

Kristen Welker pushed back, stating the amendment says all persons born in the U.S. are citizens. She questioned if Trump could bypass the amendment with executive action. Trump affirmed he was open to the idea, saying the U.S. is the only country with such a policy and “we have to end it.”

@MeetThePress omits six words about birthright citizenship from the 14th Amendment--
The omitted text is set off by asterisks:
“All persons born … in the United States, *and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,* shall be citizens of the United States”
Those words matter https://t.co/qVYld0O4og

In this instance, @MeetThePress seems to try to render a debatable matter beyond debate by selectively omitting key words from the Constitution, making it appear incorrectly that the Fourteenth Amendment proscribes any and all restrictions on birthright citizenship.

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"Subject to the jurisdiction thereof"--The interpretation of the subject to the jurisdiction part of the citizenship clause is hotly debated. It grants automatic U.S. citizenship to children who are born in the U.S. to parents who are citizens of another country. The loophole effectively allows illegal immigrants to have children in the country who automatically become citizens, making it much more complicated to deport families with mixed legal status. Opponents of this interpretation argue that the illegal parents are no more subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. than the diplomat, since the U.S. would deport them back to their own country rather than exert legal jurisdiction over them, and the children should have the same status as the parents despite their birth on U.S. soil.

So, perhaps once again, it should go back to Congress and then further if needed.