This is true. The fourteenth amendment says that anyone who is born in the United States is automatically granted citizenship, given that children's birthparents are within the limits of US federal jurisdiction. Foreigners are not subject to U.S Jury Duty, therefore, foreigners do not have allegiance to the U.S Constitution. In sum, it is the allegiance of the birth parents that determine the child's citzenship, not the geographic locations. In other words, what carmelin said was incorrect. winter is correct
No that this discussion is relevant to the topic, but, with few exceptions, children born in the United States ARE explicitly U.S. citizens.