Aug 18, 2015 ... As we've explained in the past, there's one key clause in that sentence from the  14th Amendment — "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" — that left ... took a  worldwide look at the issue in 2010 and found that "only 30 of the world's 194  countries grant automatic citizenship to children born to illegal aliens.".
Aug 23, 2015 ... The country's 150-year-old right of citizenship to every person upon birth on U.S.  soil has become the latest test question for GOP presidential candidates, with  Donald Trump ... We wanted to see if the United States is one of 30 countries in  the world to offer automatic citizenship to anyone born on its soil.
... of jus soli in which citizenship by birthplace is automatic only for the children of  certain immigrants. Countries that have acceded to the 1961 Convention on the  Reduction of Statelessness will grant nationality to otherwise stateless persons  who were born on their territory, or on a ship or plane flagged by that country.
In an August 2010 report, the Center for Immigration Studies, through direct  communication with foreign government officials and analysis of relevant foreign  law including statutory and constitutional law, was able to confirm that 30 of the  world's 194 countries grant automatic birthright citizenship (although they were  not able ...
Aug 31, 2010 ... The overwhelming majority of the world's countries do not offer automatic  citizenship to everyone born within their borders. Over the past ..... But when the  14th Amendment was enacted, there were few limits on immigration and very few  persons in the United States would have been residing here illegally.
Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? We're the only country in the world that has it.