If there was actual birthright citizenship in the Constitution, Congress wouldn't have needed to pass the Snyder Act in 1924, granting American Indians citizenship.
That’s an interesting point. One open detail is native Americans live in their own nations, sovereign from USA. There are likely other specifics as well.
But yes, no one with common sense writing rules for a new nation would allow anyone being spawned on one’s soil to be declared a citizen with privileges.
If there was actual birthright citizenship in the Constitution, Congress wouldn't have needed to pass the Snyder Act in 1924, granting American Indians citizenship.
That’s an interesting point. One open detail is native Americans live in their own nations, sovereign from USA. There are likely other specifics as well.
But yes, no one with common sense writing rules for a new nation would allow anyone being spawned on one’s soil to be declared a citizen with privileges.
Even those Indians born off the reservations were not afforded US citizenship.
And, while Indian nations do have sovereignty, they are fully bound by Federal laws.
My grandfather was not a citizen when he was born.