Vince

You can even say, I think you can probably arrive at the same conclusion that, wait, why is a legal immigrant?

entitled to a U.S.

citizen child.

Shouldn't it just be for U.S.

citizens?

Yeah, I think that would be the proper way to handle this.

If a legal immigrant wants a U.S.

citizen child, they should become a naturalized U.S.

citizen, and then their kid can be a U.S.

citizen at birth.

That would, I think, make the most sense in the world.

But regardless, just in terms of the technicalities here, that was a legal immigrant in the Wong Kim Ark case.

One more case to think about, one more big case to think about from the 1920s.

And that was at the time, it was widely understood that Indians who were born in the United States were not actually American citizens.

But not yet, at least.

So in the 1920s, Congress had to pass a law called the Indian Citizenship Act to confer American citizens on Indians who were born in the United States.

Because between the passage of the 14th Amendment and the Indian Citizenship Act, everybody in the country knew that just being an Indian born in America doesn't make you an American citizen.

In other words, the 14th Amendment didn't extend to Indian children.

And so American citizenship finally comes to pass for Indian children in the 1920s in the form of the Indian Citizenship Act.

So this is, and one last thing, one last big thing, although we could talk about this endlessly.