Anchor Babies

The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution indicates that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship for nearly all individuals born in the country, regardless of their parents' citizenship or immigration status.

This error by the Supreme Court stems from interpreting the word “born”.  The Court didn’t take it in its context. The phrase “born or naturalized” could be interpreted as guaranteeing citizenship also to the children of US citizens. No other country made this mistake.

Congress could correct this if they could find their ass with both hands.

“You can have open borders or a welfare state, but you can’t have both” - Milton Friedman

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader