:The 14th Amendment Protected the Civil Rights of Freed Slaves, Not Illegal Aliens" by Daniel Greenfield

 Daniel Greenfield: The 14th Amendment Protected the Civil Rights of Freed Slaves, Not Illegal Aliens | Frontpage Mag:

“I have said it before and I will say it again, the 14th Amendment is by far the worst amendment to the Constitution. It broke every possible rule of constitutional government beginning with simplicity and timelessness. The 14th is a sprawling mess meant to deal with immediate problems that used sloppy broad language and quickly became a magnet for every leftist effort to conduct backdoor rewrites of the law.
Consider that in just the last few years, Democrats used 4 of the 5 sections of the 14th to argue that…
1. That Trump was ineligible to hold office
2. That Congress was obligated to raise the debt limit
3. That men who pretend they’re women are entitled to do so
and now
4. That illegal aliens born in this country are automatically citizens
We know exactly what Section 1 of the 14th was aimed at. “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” was meant to protect the civil rights of freed slaves. It did not mean that anyone who happened to give birth in this country automatically made their kid a citizen, but that’s the absurd premise of birthright citizenship.
And the current Trump executive order meant to apply to future children of illegal aliens is being challenged on the basis of the Fourteenth. This battle is almost certainly going to end up in the Supreme Court which should be interesting, though far from an inevitable happy outcome. If you think Neil or Amy are going to vote to eliminate birthright citizenship, well good luck with that. Ideally we should repeal old number fourteen which is probably the sloppiest and messiest of the amendments. If you doubt that, go look up at that list above.
Not likely to happen, but a man can dream.
There’s no such thing as birthright citizenship. Or any of the other things that Dems keep finding in the 14th Amendment which was not written to do any of these things.” …….

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens…” 

Some of the Amendment authors supported Birthright Citizenship, others did not. But why then include the qualifier “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof…” if it simply means Born?

This is why children of ambassadors are not American citizens; their parents are subject to the jurisdiction of their homelands.

It’s gotten so ridiculous that if a Chinese soldier gave birth while invading California, that child would be called American. And then be entitled to bring his whole family over, put them on Social Security, get them race preferences, Small Business Loans and registered to vote.

No.

more: 

Trump Is Right – Ending Birthright Citizenship Is Constitutional | The Heritage Foundation

Birthright Citizenship Is A Pernicious Lie That’s Destroying America