Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
MAVNI was never intended to be utilized for the benefit of illegal aliens.
An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.
Corruption never has been compulsory.
I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.
No group of our citizens can be denied the right to participate in the opportunities of first-class citizenship.
Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American.
It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.