I rise to once again introduce the American Citizenship Amendment. Currently. any person born on American soil can claim American citizenship. regardless of the citizenship of that childs parents. This means that any noncitizen who happens to give birth in the United States has just given birth to an American citizen. eligible for all the benefits and privileges afforded to citizens. Madam Speaker. this is unacceptable and is far from what our Founders intended when they drafted our Constitution. It undermines the very concept of citizenship as enshrined in the United States Constitution: to be constitutionally entitled to U.S. citizenship one must be "born . .. in the United States" and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." This second. and most important. part means that in order to gain U.S. citizenship one must owe and actively express allegiance to the United States in addition to the act of being bomn on United States soil.
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