"Anchor Babies" and the 14th Amendment

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Charles

I will admit, you op ed piece IS better written!!!

Chas

And accurate to boot!

The Right Wingers have been making noise about the "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" stipulation and claiming that an undocumented alien isn't.

Subject, that is.

To US jurisdiction.

Of course, that's ridiculous. Aliens, undocumented and otherwise, are most definitely subject to our jurisdiction and laws.

This distinction was included in the amendment basically to distinguish between diplomats (protected from our jurisdiction by Diplomatic Immunity) and their offspring born here and everyone else.

John