Domenico Montanaro

And the backdrop to that is that a lot of conservatives in the country have been really irritated with the demographic change in the country over the last 30 years, especially the huge influx of Latinos in the country.

Of course, Asian Americans are also the fastest growing group in the country.

But when it comes to birthright citizenship, it really is one way that a lot of people on the right, hardline immigration folks,

feel like is a way to stem the tide of this demographic change, even though whites in America are headed very quickly toward being no longer the majority in the country.

And no matter what they do, putting up a wall or stopping the number of people who can get citizenship automatically in the country, no matter what, that's going to change because already those who are under 18 is majority minority in this country.

Yeah, there are.

I mean, the U.S.

is a bit of an outlier, though, because it's only about three dozen countries across the world that have birthright citizenship, automatic citizenship for anyone born in the country, mostly in the Western Hemisphere.

Interestingly, it really was sort of a product of colonization.

It was in a lot of areas in South America and in Africa.

A lot of African countries, when they gained independence, got rid of it because it really was an effort by a lot of these mostly white colonial powers to be able to offset the numbers of native population and be able to have more strength.

politically in those countries.

So it's sort of ironic now that what's taking place in this country for why it's intended to be changed is mostly being pushed in part because of the demographic change that's leading to whites being in the minority in this country.

And they talk about birth tourism.

And that is a thing that happens.

It's not huge numbers, but it is something that happens in this country where you have wealthy people from other parts of the world who might come to the United States.

They also would talk about in a negative way what they would call in past presidential campaigns, quote, anchor babies, where you had people who would immigrate to the country illegally and then have children here in hopes that they'd be able to stay in the country.

But we have to remember that

This is in the Constitution, right?

The 14th Amendment, Section 1 of that says, "...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."