Dear Editor: I would like to support Dennis Duffy’s comments (Readers’ Forum, Nov. 10) supporting President Trump’s amendment to end birthright citizenship.

Although the Supreme Court has never ruled, specifically, on birthright citizenship, they have ruled on who is a citizen. Elk vs. Wilkins (1884). S.C. ruled that American Indians were not citizens just because they lived here. They did not meet the jurisdiction part of 14th Amendment. They had their own government with treaties with the U.S. government, therefore did not meet the criteria to be a citizen, i.e. they were not under the jurisdiction of the U.S. You cannot swim across the Rio Grande, have a baby and demand that it is a citizen.

TOM HACKERT

Whitestone