If you are born here, you are a citizen, period. Even if sirs does not think so.
I realize this insidious need to argue issues points no one is making....in this case, how sirs supposedly has proclaimed that the 14th only applies to legal immigrants, and that because I say it, makes it some fact. That's a decision ONLY the Supreme Court can make legal.
I can opine all I want, just as you can spew how the 2nd amendment was all about hunting slaves with muskets. But I never claimed or even inferred that it was "up to me". It's simply a conclusion I've made, based on the clear wording of the 14th.
And AT THE TIME, the amendment was ratified, WE HAD NO IMMIGRATION POLICY, so that born here was referring to those born to people who had come here either legally, or by force, such as the slaves were.
So, we simply need the Supreme Court to rule on the current Federal statute to then make it "settled law", because until then, its anything but