• brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 days ago

    That’s basically the point. If you are subject to law enforcement and you have a kid here, the kid is a citizen.

    “Subject to the jurisdiction” was essentially to keep diplomats kids from becoming citizens.

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      16 days ago

      Ah, okay, sorry. I thought you were implying that a person is immune to laws unless they’re a citizen, like those sovereign citizen types, I failed to realize you were quoting a passage from the order lol.

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      16 days ago

      I thought it was more about if a foreign nation say, invaded and controlled a state, then we wouldn’t be granting citizenship while it was under a foreign power.

      Either way, no reading of that would apply to what the administration wants to see. I believe the argument I saw them attempting was to imagine another word was intended, “exclusively subject to the jurisdiction”, meaning an otherwise stateless child becomes a citizen, but if they have birthright citizenship claim anywhere else, that is what the administration would want to use as an excuse to deny citizenship.