From Politico:
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) isn’t wasting any time with his immigration agenda, dropping a bill on the first day of Congress that goes after birthright citizenship.
King’s measure would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, ending automatic citizenship for anyone born in the country. Instead, the measure requires that only the children of citizens, legal immigrants permanently living in the country or immigrants in the military, be granted citizenship.
He's not the only person who can't understand the plain text of the Constitution.
At least five other members – Reps. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), Gary Miller (R-Calif.), Rob Woodall (R-Ga.), Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) – are co-sponsoring King’s measure.
Here's the Thomas link: HR 140
Here is the relevant Constitutional text:
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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section I, Amendment 14
What the idiots argue is that "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" does not apply to the children of illegal immigrants. What this would mean, in practical terms, is that every illegal immigrant would be granted diplomatic immunity - because that's the sort of people (diplomats) who are in the United States but not subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
Remember the Lethal Weapon 2 scene where the South African diplomat empties a revolver into Riggs and then holds up his passport and intones "Diplomatic immunity"? Murtaugh shot him right in the forehead, of course, but that's not the point. The point is that Steve King wants to give 14 million people the right to do any damn thing they want, and all we could do is send them home.