Trump Executive Order ends birthright citizenship
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"Jurisdiction" means "what nationality are you i.e. who do I have to holler at to come get their boy?". A Brazilian illegally in the US is subject to the Laws of the US because of location but subject to the Jurisdiction of Brazil by home origin. A German illegally living in the US isn't an American because he is contributing to the economy even if he has a whole established life.
That sounds like a really interesting legal theory you could argue before the supreme court and lose.
Pro tip: if your legal theory supports the conclusion "the freed slaves are not citizens and neither are their children", it ain't gonna fly. It would have been nice if they were more specific on the amendment or had a time limit, but they didn't do that so here we are.
the people in question were under the jurisdiction of the US, dummy. Plenty of freed slaves chose to leave as was a popular sentiment at the time, they founded Liberia and that whole situation happened...
keep flyin' bucko