If your parents are illegal aliens and your born in the US does that make you illegal?

Question

If your parents are illegal aliens and your born in the US does that make you illegal?

Answer 1

no that makes me a citizen.  

Answer 2

Unfortunately no,things have been grossly misinterpreted and anchor babies abound.

Answer 3

Nope. They makes you their anchor baby so they can stay and bring all their family here.  

Answer 4

NO

"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.

You can wait until you are eighteen and claimed your parent so they can become legal.

My son was born in my country and he was registered in the USA consulate to retain his citizenship from the USA. His father is a born citizen of the USA. In this case he has dual citizenship.  

Answer 5

Yes!  Because the U.S. Supreme Court has NEVER RULED that illegals who birth their children on U.S. soil are or get automatic citizenship. Yet there is this misnomer that has been going on for years that they had.  People who read the 14th Amendment fail to read the 15th Amendment which also is specific as to whom gets citizenship.  Those people are the ones who blatantly twist the 14th Amendment meaning or interpretation out of ignorance rather than facts.

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Under Sec. 1992 of U.S. Revised Statutes the same Congress who had adopted the Fourteenth Amendment, confirmed this principle: “All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States.”

Who are the subjects of a foreign power? Thomas Jefferson said “Aliens are the subjects of a foreign power.”

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Sen. Trumbull felt the words, “That all persons born in the United States and owing allegiance thereto are hereby declared to be citizens” would be more than sufficient to fulfill this goal. However, after investigation it was found the United States had no authority to make citizens of those temporarily residing in the United States who owed only a “temporary allegiance.”

Many make the silly mistake of confusing temporary allegiance to a countries laws under the law of nations with that of allegiance to a nation. In school we pledge allegiance to the flag and the “Republic for which it stands,” not pledge our allegiance to local traffic laws. No one during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries confused owing allegiance to the laws with that of owing allegiance to a nation.

This is why it was later demanded that a complete and immediate allegiance - that is, “not owing allegiance to anyone else” - be established under a constitutional amendment and not merely a temporary allegiance.

Framer of the Fourteenth Amendments first section, John Bingham, said Sec. 1992 of U.S. Revised Statutes meant “every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.”

In other words, there is no such thing as an American who holds dual allegiance between two nations. Why make citizens of those who owe no allegiance to the nation, who might join the forces of another country against you, align themselves with foreign interests, or those who carry none of the burdens of citizenship (such as taxes, military service, juries, etc.)?

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What changed after the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment? Not much really. States adopted laws that excluded either “transient aliens” or those not resident of the State. New York had already a 1857 code that read, “All persons born in this state, and resident within it, except the children of transient aliens, and of alien public ministers and consuls…”

After the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, California, Montana and South Dakota adopted identical language as New York. Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (39th Congress), James F. Wilson of Iowa, said “children born on our soil to temporary sojourners” could not be citizens of the United States.

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If there is one inescapable truth to the text and debates, it is this: When Congress decided to require potential citizens to first be subject to the complete jurisdiction of the United States they by default excluded all citizens of other nations temporarily residing in the U.S. who had no intention of becoming citizens themselves or, disqualified of doing so under naturalization laws. This was no oversight because it was too simple to declare the common law rule of jus soli if indeed that was truly the desired goal by these very competent lawyers (both Howard and Trumbull were lawyers). Instead, there were classes of persons no one desired to make citizens, while also being classes of persons national law prohibited from becoming citizens.

Aaron Sargent, a Representative from California during the Naturalization Act of 1870 debates said the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship clause was not a de-facto right for aliens to obtain citizenship. No one came forward to dispute this conclusion.

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More in the link provided. The Federalist Papers of the United States, which is where the U.S. Supreme Court derives their rulings from on matters.

http://federalistblog.us/2007/09/revisit...

Answer 6

Regardless of parents status, anyone born on the US mainland or territories gains the American citizenship by right of birth.

Answer 7

Maybe not an illegal alien, but not a citizen either.

Answer 8

You would be called an "Anchor Baby". ANY person who is born in the United States Of America (USA) is automatically an USA citizen by "birth-right".  

Answer 9

It should!  And by my reading of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, I believe that it DOES!!

Here's the amendment: "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."

Answer 10

No, whoever born in US territory is US Citizen regardliess of their parents.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/m...

Answer 11

No

Answer 12

If you are born in the US you are a US citizen. Anyone who says anything else is wrong. And you are a person just like the rest of us no matter who wants to throw derogatory names around.

Answer 13

no because you were born here

it's automatic citizenship

Answer 14

Anyone born in the United States is a US citizen.

That's where the term "anchor baby" originates.