“Please inform me of the following,” someone who signed off as “Farmhand” inquired in a letter to The Buffalo News on March 13, 1926. “Is a child born in this country of foreign parents a citizen provided said parents have not been naturalized? If you will give me this information I will be greatly obliged to you.” Below his query, the editors responded, “According to the constitution of the United States all children born in the United States are citizens thereof regardless of the nationality