The Conservative Party USA supports the “Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009” (H.R.1868) that rejects the concept of giving automatic citizenship to children of illegal aliens who are born within U.S. borders.
The 14th Amendment states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” This amendment has been deceptively deconstructed from its original intent and reinterpreted by politicians that exploit citizenship for personal political gain.
The 14th Amendment was written to protect the newly freed slaves from having their civil and constitutional rights infringed upon due to remaining racial animosity practiced towards them after the Civil War. It was not intended to carry weight across a wide spectrum of people migrating to America who upon arrival might give birth to children.
Those that advocate birthright citizenship base their argument on geography as the definition of jurisdiction whereas the authors of the Amendment referred to the state of citizenship of the parents, particularly the father who carries the bloodline. This was the prevailing precedent at the time of this writing of the Amendment.
The meaning of the word “jurisdiction” as written in the Amendment implied those in America who were not citizens had no “jurisdiction” (Constitutional rights) and therefore were not afforded the same rights as a legal citizen living under the “jurisdiction” (the Constitution) of the U.S. government. Advocates for birthright citizenship argue the authors were intentionally ambiguous in their meaning and therefore it’s open to interpretation. But we believe that is not the case. It can only be subjectively speculated that those penning the 14th Amendment envisioned mass immigration from not only border countries but from abroad overseas.
Through the misinterpretation of this amendment we now see districts redrawn utilizing unconstitutional gerrymandering, treasonous legislating of safe havens for illegal aliens through claiming of sanctuary counties and states, and some instances the registering of illegals to vote through non-compliance of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). This has eroded the authority of the states against federal overreach, disenfranchised the electorate and provided an avenue by which statist socioeconomic policies funded by tax payer dollars is changing the very political and theological landscape of our Republic from one of rule of law into rule by the mob.