Are we US citizens, US persons or a US national?

Question

please cite law, statute or anything so I can go take a look at it.
Thanks

Answer 1

Citizen=national. Those who are born or naturalized in the US. Others are aliens, legal or illegal.

Answer 2

You are an American Citizen if you were naturalized or have citizenship through birth in any of the 50 States, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Panama Canal Zone before it was returned to Panama or you derive your citizenship through somone else born there. There are also other cases where you would be entitled to it, but for the sake of simplicity I won't get into it here.

You are an American National if your only connection to the U.S. is through birth in an outlying possession (currently American Samoa or Swains Island) (8 U.S.C. §1408).

Nationals are not the same as citizens (all citizens are nationals, but not all nationals are citizens). Nationals are not entitled to vote or hold public office, but they are entitled to unrestricted residency in the United States and can naturalize to become American citizens.

The term "US Person" does not have any special legal meaning.

Answer 3

Citizens are born here - naturalized citizens become citizens through filling of paperwork and classes.

Answer 4

14th amendment, born here or naturalized.

it goes on to say that no law can be passed to counteract citizens rights.

But if taxpayers pay for services for illegal kids, let say, that their own kids cannot get because they are legal, how does that become legal under the same amendment?

Answer 5

You're a US citizen if you were born and raised in the United States. That may change in the case of 'anchor babies', though...