Nothing Unusual about States Denying Citizenship to Alien Born Children
James Ho, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, repeats common misunderstandings over what “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” under the Fourteenth Amendment was declared to mean by its primary framers, the United States Attorney General and the Supreme Court, and concludes that any effort by States to refuse citizenship to children born to undocumented aliens to be unconstitutional. Ho never addresses what the primary framers declared the words to mean, but instead singles out a minor discussion between Senators Cowan and Conness…