If the Constitution required them to be citizens, anyone born on the United States, it would just say all persons born in the United States are American citizens, but the clause, 'and subject to the jurisdiction thereof', is the subject of a significant amount of legal scholarship ... Someone who comes in here illegally are not fully subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, they're not subject to being drafted, for example, so you can change it statutorily.
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