Ever since @realDonaldTrump signed an executive order regarding #BirthrightCitizenship I have read a lot of debate about non-citizens being "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States and how it is so clear that the 14th Amendment was supposed to give citizenship to anyone who was born in the United States regardless of the citizenship status of their parents.

During the debate upon the wording of the #14thAmendment Senator Edgar Cowan of Pennsylvania addressed this very point and explained the difference from being subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and being offered the protections of the United States:

"Is the child of the Chinese immigrant in California a citizen? Is the child of a Gypsy born in Pennsylvania a citizen? If so, what rights have they? Have they any more rights than a sojourner in the United States? If a traveler comes here from Ethiopia, from Australia, or from Great Britain, he is entitled, to a certain extent, to the protection of the laws. You cannot murder him with impunity. It is murder to kill him, the same as it is to kill another man. You cannot commit an assault and battery on him, I apprehend. He has a right to the protection of the laws; but he is not a citizen in the ordinary acceptation of the word."