Legal Question in Immigration Law in California

Under the Fourteenth Amendment �all persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States.� This child, born in the U.S., is accordingly a U.S. Citizens. This however will not mean that the parents of the child will receive lawful resident status as a result. A U.S. citizen child, once he/she turns 21, can petition for his/her parents as immediate relatives however in a case like this the concern is the illegal entry. Accordingly, more information on the parents situation would be needed to see if they qualify for 245i as a manner in which their original unlawful entry could be forgiven through the payment of a penalty fee.