Limits can be imposed on birthright citizenship

 Blaze:

Congress has the power to define what it means to be born in the United States “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Current law contains no such restriction, but Congress can make one, excluding prospectively from birthright citizenship individuals born in the U.S. to illegal aliens.

This is an idea that has attracted lawmakers of both political parties.

In fact, one of the first bills (at least in recent memory) that attempted to impose statutory limits on automatic birthright citizenship was introduced in 1993 by Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who later became the Democrats’ leader in the Senate.

Senator Reid’s bill was called the Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993. Title X of that bill would have limited automatic birthright citizenship to children born in the United States to mothers who were either U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents at the time. The fact that federal law doesn’t currently impose such a restriction doesn’t mean that it couldn’t, and that’s why Reid proposed that change.

Nothing in the 14th Amendment stops Congress from enacting legislation that limits birthright citizenship along the lines of what Reid proposed in 1993.

Those who suggest that Congress is somehow powerless to limit birthright citizenship ignore important constitutional text giving Congress power to define who among those “born in the United States” is born “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

Moreover, the very lawmakers who drafted the 14th Amendment did not consider it to confer automatic citizenship upon anyone born within its geographic borders — such a suggestion was considered absurd at the time.
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Making this clear to illegals might make coming to the US illegally less likely.  The US needs to get control of its borders and one of the best ways to do that is to vote against open borders Democrats. 

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