Original sentence: In response to concerns over illegal immigration in the United States (and the associated fear that children of illegal immigrants could serve as "anchor babies"), bills have been introduced from time to time in Congress which have sought to reinterpret the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment and deny citizenship at birth to U.No such bill has ever come close to being enacted; even if one did, it would presumably achieve its intended result only if the Supreme Court, in a new case, were to decide that Wong Kim Ark was wrongly decided and that the precedent set in 1898 should be repudiated.Some attempts have also been made to supersede Wong Kim Ark by amending the Constitution itself, but no such amendment has ever been approved by Congress in order to be voted upon by state legislatures.citizenship law since (and, arguably, before) Wong Kim Ark has acknowledged both jus soli (citizenship through place of birth) and jus sanguinis (citizenship inherited from parents)
Edited sentence: In response to illegal immigration in the United States, bills have been introduced from time to time in Congress which have sought to reinterpret the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment and deny citizenship at birth to U.No such bill has ever come close to being enacted; even if one did, it would presumably achieve its desired result only if the Supreme Court, in a new case, were to decide that Wong Kim Ark was wrongly decided and that the precedent set in 1898 should be repudiated.Some attempts have also been made to override Wong Kim Ark by amending the Constitution itself, but no such amendment has ever been approved by Congress in order to be voted upon by state legislatures.citizenship law since (and, arguably, before) Wong Kim Ark has long acknowledged both jus soli (citizenship through place of birth) and jus sanguinis (citizenship inherited from parents)