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A baby born this morning to parents without papers is an American. 6–3, the Court said the 14th Amendment means what it's meant since 1868
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Any Child In the US Born to Any Parent is a Citizen of The US, Now and Always
Wendy Weber (Wendy The Druid)
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This misses the argument, though.

It wasn't about whether the president can change the Constitution but about what the Constitution said.

Opponents of birthright citizenship argued that due to the qualifier "subject to the jurisdiction" the Constitution never said it applied to certain classes.

It wasn't that the president was editing with a Sharpie but that due to the words on the page it was misapplied.

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