By Seton Motley
We have recently heard much about the Fourteenth Amendment with regard to “birthright citizenship.”
The default, dumb U.S. policy for decades has been: A nine-month-pregnant woman can stagger illegally across the border as her water breaks. And her immediately-born baby is somehow magically imbued with U.S. citizenship.
Advocates for this idiocy have cited the Fourteenth Amendment as somehow justifying their idiocy. It does not.
Here’s the pertinent language to which they refer: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
They are, of course, ignoring the language between the commas: “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
An illegal alien mother is not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S.,…
