The 14th Amendment regularized the situation of the children of freed slaves. Without it, the United States would have had a massive population of illegal immigrants who would have had to be dealt with God-knows-how, since they couldn’t be repatriated to a country they’ve never known - even if their parents even knew which country they came from, if there even was a country at all.
In fact, the entire legal argument of Miller, Trump and the racist posse currently soiling the White House is that the 14th was only truly meant to solve that particular problem and nothing else, and therefore doesn’t apply anymore.
As for other countries that apply jus soli, they usually started doing so to encourage immigration and promote a “more desirable” population (i.e. displace the native ones), or bring in cheap labor. The US itself greatly benefited from easy immigration in fact, as they’re beginning to find out the hard way now that the immigrant population is being forcibly removed.
The 14th Amendment regularized the situation of the children of freed slaves. Without it, the United States would have had a massive population of illegal immigrants who would have had to be dealt with God-knows-how, since they couldn’t be repatriated to a country they’ve never known - even if their parents even knew which country they came from, if there even was a country at all.
In fact, the entire legal argument of Miller, Trump and the racist posse currently soiling the White House is that the 14th was only truly meant to solve that particular problem and nothing else, and therefore doesn’t apply anymore.
As for other countries that apply jus soli, they usually started doing so to encourage immigration and promote a “more desirable” population (i.e. displace the native ones), or bring in cheap labor. The US itself greatly benefited from easy immigration in fact, as they’re beginning to find out the hard way now that the immigrant population is being forcibly removed.