Chevron and Roe were "settled law" too, until they weren't. As to being subject to our laws, that applies to almost anyone, anywhere. Different than "subject to the jurisdiction".
They should call me to testify about the 14th Amendment. I legally collected medical records on more than eighty Chinese women who traveled to Los Angeles to give birth and return thirty days later to their home in China. Their intention was to have a child born as an American citizen, who was immediately entitled to all rights of US citizens and who, at the age of eighteen, could legally bring their family members here to live.
I have the records, the names of the hospitals, doctors and the addresses where these women stayed before and after giving birth. Most arrived one to two weeks before birth and returned to China in thirty days. Companies in China made all the arrangements.
It’s my understanding that this was solely written for the slaves so they would qualify as an American citizen upon slavery being abolished and they became free people. But if we are going to extend this to others who come here then a path to citizenship must prevail. Children who are born here take on their parent’s homeland. If my parents traveled to Uk and gave birth to me there, I would be considered under my parent’s citizenship, where they had me. Once parents fulfill that path and do it legally then and only then should the children be recognized as US citizens once their parents achieve theirs if underage at the time. If adult age, then they too must take the same path to citizenship.
Hehehe, “there is more transparency over the Epstein Files than Gu’s citizenship status,” from what I read in PJMedia. Why would Gu want to represent the CCP if she is American? BTW, the CCP doesn’t recognize duel citizenship.
If a person is not subject to the jurisdiction of a state, then the state cannot enforce its laws on that person. This is what subject to jurisdiction means. There is no class of people upon who the state can enforce its laws, but who are not subject to the jurisdiction of the state.
Chevron and Roe were "settled law" too, until they weren't. As to being subject to our laws, that applies to almost anyone, anywhere. Different than "subject to the jurisdiction".
They should call me to testify about the 14th Amendment. I legally collected medical records on more than eighty Chinese women who traveled to Los Angeles to give birth and return thirty days later to their home in China. Their intention was to have a child born as an American citizen, who was immediately entitled to all rights of US citizens and who, at the age of eighteen, could legally bring their family members here to live.
I have the records, the names of the hospitals, doctors and the addresses where these women stayed before and after giving birth. Most arrived one to two weeks before birth and returned to China in thirty days. Companies in China made all the arrangements.
It’s my understanding that this was solely written for the slaves so they would qualify as an American citizen upon slavery being abolished and they became free people. But if we are going to extend this to others who come here then a path to citizenship must prevail. Children who are born here take on their parent’s homeland. If my parents traveled to Uk and gave birth to me there, I would be considered under my parent’s citizenship, where they had me. Once parents fulfill that path and do it legally then and only then should the children be recognized as US citizens once their parents achieve theirs if underage at the time. If adult age, then they too must take the same path to citizenship.
That should say, Not where they had me.
China can have her
Astute summary. The Framers would be shocked to see it misconstrued this way.
A very good, if brief, meditation on the concepts of citizenship, allegiance, and membership with implications far beyond just the nation.
I compare citizenship to marriage. … forsaking all others… till death do us part.
A US citizen, per the Constitution must fit one of these two definitions.
1. “born”
or
2. “naturalized”
in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
Born defines children born to parents who already are actual citizens.
Naturalized refers to people who made specific efforts and commitments toward becoming a US citizen.
There is no way one can further read into that phrase that the child of a non-citizen merely by accident of birth here automatically is a US citizen.
It’s flat out absurd. And certainly not reflected in the text.
But what's the background on Gu? Not born of US citizens?
Hehehe, “there is more transparency over the Epstein Files than Gu’s citizenship status,” from what I read in PJMedia. Why would Gu want to represent the CCP if she is American? BTW, the CCP doesn’t recognize duel citizenship.
If a person is not subject to the jurisdiction of a state, then the state cannot enforce its laws on that person. This is what subject to jurisdiction means. There is no class of people upon who the state can enforce its laws, but who are not subject to the jurisdiction of the state.