14th Amendment Debate Flashback on Illegal Immigration . Senator Jacob M. Howard : [The 14th amendment] will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of person '

Senator Jacob M. Howard who worked in Congress on the 13th and 14th Amendments drafting clearly stated :

[The 14th amendment] will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of person

Here's the debate from the 39th Congress down below on May 30, 1866. Your friendly progressive legal scholar hopes you don't read this one.