The Constitution's Citizenship Clause, which is the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment, states clearly that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Under this provision, anyone (1) born “in the United States”; and (2) born “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States has a constitutional right to U.S. citizenship. At the time the Citizenship Clause was debated in Congress, Senator Lyman Trumbull, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, explained that the Citizenship Clause “refers to persons everywhere, whether in the States or in the Territories or in the District of Columbia.” Neither the President nor Congress has the power to change this constitutional provision. It can only be changed by another constitutional amendment.