If the 14th Amendment had demanded it, then you wouldn't do it. So you have a situation where the historical record is somebody who is a member of an Indian tribe Prior to that law in the 1920s, [a Native American] born on US soil was not considered a citizen of the United States. But now they're saying the original understanding was always that someone could come for two weeks from Sri Lanka, have a child, go back to Sri Lanka, and that kid … (05:06–05:14)
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