The birthright generation is a term used by immigrant advocates to identify US born citizens protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which grants American citizenship to all born on American soil, and has one or both undocumented parents. Birthright citizenship may be conferred either by jus soli or jus sanguinis. Under United States law, any person born within the US (including the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands) and subject to its jurisdiction is automatically granted US citizenship.The alternative term is Anchor Baby; a term used by immigration reductionists in the United States to describe a child born in the US to undocumented immigrants. It is generally used as a reference to the supposed role