article_snippet.sent: The Fourteenth Amendment declares that "All persons born ... in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.
article_snippet.sent: How can it be, in the 21st century, that Americans born on U.S. soil are denied the rights of citizenship?
article_snippet.sent: Since the United States was established, the United States adhered to the rule that those born on U.S. lands were U.S. citizens.  
article_snippet.sent: In the past century, the inhabitants of every other U.S. island territory have become citizens.