U.S. Citizenship of Persons Born in the United States to Alien Parents

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Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Reviews historical development of tenet of U.S. citizenship that a person born in the U.S. to alien parents is a U.S. citizen, including the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866; a...

Reviews historical development of tenet of U.S. citizenship that a person born in the U.S. to alien parents is a U.S. citizen, including the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866; and examines legislative proposals to exclude the children of illegal and nonimmigrant aliens from automatic birthright citizenship, including proposed constitutional and statutory amendments.

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