<P> Section 1, Clause 1, of the Fourteenth Amendment, reads: </P> <P> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside . </P> <P> The reference to naturalization in the Citizenship Clause is to the process by which immigrants are granted United States citizenship . Congress has power in relation to naturalization under the Naturalization Clause in Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution . </P> <P> The text of the Citizenship Clause was first offered in the Senate as an amendment to Section 1 of the joint resolution as passed by the House . </P>

Who has the power to make naturalization laws for the united states