Thread: An Irrational Public Policy

Professor Lino Graglia bravely and wisely speaks against birthright citizenship for illegal aliens children:

http://www.trolp.org/main_pgs/issues/v14n1/Graglia.pdf

During debate over the first clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, he argued for including the phrase and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Jacob Howard, who served on the drafting committee, said:
[The 14th amendment] will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of person.

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875