Not only is is not completely true and misinterpreted, it does not apply. Many refugees are under no jurisdiction matters like this. Undo ented workers, tourists are also subject to our jurisdiction just for being here.
Innocence(being a minor) has no bearing on citizenship, consisted with the 14th amendment. Procedural due process rights requires that certain steps, such as a hearing, be followed before a person's "life, liberty, citizenship or property" can be taken away. It is theirs to claim at any date. This has been the historical precedent.
If you really wish that a precedent be set that changed or limited birthrights, within a whilm of popular support. Would you support those changes for any individual? If a new majority take over congress and declare all of those of European decent, no longer citizens, but resident Aliens? Would you be ok with such a precedent of popular birthright criteria? I'm guessing you'd your pants.
The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment added this principle into the Cons ution to keep the Supreme Court from ruling the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to be uncons utional for want of congressional authority to pass such a law or a future Congress from altering it by a bare majority vote.

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