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Originally Posted by TexasDreamy
This amendment is pretty unambiguous. There is also over 140 years of SCOTUS precedents that say that yes.. people born on US soil are automatically citizens with few exceptions like they are the children of foreign diplomats.
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The amendment is pretty clear to me and the children of the undocumented immigrants ARE included even though they are born to nationals of another country. Undocumented immigrants are "subject to the jurisdiction" of the US otherwise they would have no legal power to call us undocumented immigrants in the 1st place.
In 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that birth on American soil is "declared by the Constitution to constitute a sufficient and complete right to citizenship."
In 1982, it concluded that undocumented immigrants are indeed "within the jurisdiction" of the state where they are present. To deny a U.S. born child a birth certificate would almost certainly violate the right to the equal protection of the laws.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...-american-soil