The land, infrastructure, institutions, and accumulated wealth of the United States constitute real property and wealth, built, defended, and held in perpetuity as an endowment by and for generations of American citizens and those who entered lawfully. These assets exist because citizens labored, sacrificed, paid taxes, and, when necessary, gave their lives in defense of the nation.
It is therefore preposterous to assert that the fertilization of an egg by two foreign nationals abroad, followed by a deliberate legal or illegal border crossing, creates a constitutional birthright to our inheritance. The word inheritance requires the person who bequeathed it to have owned it. A geographic point on a map, North, South, East, or West of a border, has no volition and cannot bequeath anything. Virtually no other nation allows such a preposterous practice.
Noncitizens and even temporary legal residents do not own U.S. citizenship. Therefore, they may not bequeath it. The 14th Amendment was ratified to secure citizenship for the children of persons fully subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S., most notably the newly freed slaves after the Civil War. It did not suggest persons carrying foreign or no passport might conceive and endow a child with U.S. citizenship.
