"The United States is among the only countries in the world that says even if neither parent is a citizen or even lawfully in the country, their future children are automatic citizens the moment the parents trespass onto our soil," Trump said.
"Since the end of the Civil War, any child born in the U.S. is a citizen, excluding the children of foreign diplomats, who are not born 'subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.'"
"A change to the rule, which Trump again proposes, would have to confront, among other challenges, the fact that birthright citizenship has been subjected to legal tests dating back to the turn of last century."
"Chief among these tests was Wong Kim Ark v. United States (1898), which established the precedent that children born in the U.S. are citizens regardless of parental status."
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