Billboards Are Already Selling American Citizenship for $4,000, and the Supreme Court Made It Possible

that the plain meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” extends to people who entered the country illegally and owe no allegiance to it whatsoever.

This is not what the 14th Amendment was written to do. It was ratified in 1868 to guarantee citizenship to freed slaves and their descendants — Americans who had been denied their birthright by a continue reading …