Daniel Greenfield has an excellent article you might want to read at Frontpage Magazine. He explains why birthright citizenship doesn’t mean foreigners and tourists from other lands pouring into the country while eight months pregnant. Their allegiance is to another country. That is explicitly rejected in the 14th Amendment Birthright citizenship destroys the meaning of citizenship. Greenfield points to the 14th Amendment’s term “subject to the jurisdiction of.” “Subject to the jurisdiction thereof” means being under the legal authority and laws of the United States, with only narrow exceptions such as children of foreign diplomats, enemy occupiers, and, historically, certain Native American tribes. Greenfield quotes from Elk v. Wilkins: Elk v. Wilkins quite clearly explained what ‘Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’, the five words at the center of President Trump’s birthright citizenship order, mean. The question was whether an American Indian born on a reservation was a citizen. The Supreme Court decided he wasn’t because he wasn’t subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. That phrase in the 14th Amendment made it abundantly clear that its purpose was to naturalize freed black slaves, not random foreigners. “Though the plaintiff alleges that he ‘had fully and completely surrendered himself to the jurisdiction of the United States,” he does not allege that the United States accepted his surrender, or that he has ever been naturalized, or taxed, or in any way recognized or treated as a citizen by the state or by the United States.” “But an emigrant from any foreign state cannot become a citizen of the United States without a formal renunciation of his old allegiance and an acceptance by the United States of that renunciation through such form of naturalization as may be required by law.” In other words, you can’t become a citizen by magic and without permission. It also means you owe complete allegiance to the jurisdiction. It doesn’t mean you can owe allegiance to China, France, or Mexico, where you were raised with their values. And then you can come back and vote here, bring your parents, and get all of our benefits. This Civil War Amendment was only meant for the children of slaves. Why do today’s experts think the Amendment was created right after the Civil War ended? Do they think the 700,000 who died in the Civil War wanted illegal foreigners to flood in and defraud us? “Oh, please, let me die for all the illegal foreigners and Chinese birth tourists.” The post Birthright Scam: Tourists & Illegals Aren’t “Subject to the Jurisdiction of” the US appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.