All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. The "and" ties those two together, no? So you can't just look at the first part of that statement w/out taking into account the last. The whole argument they are trying to make is on the interpretation "subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
I'm no constitutional scholar, nut I think the ' and subject to the jurisdiction thereof' applies to children of citizens born outside the US to it's citizens.
