re: Are illegal children “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”

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If they were previously documented, they are under jurisdiction.

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How does this make sense? Does that mean they can commit any number of crimes until they are officially documented and officially fall under the jurisdiction?

Regardless, the SCOTUS has already rules on the juridisction of illegal immigrants in Plyer v. Doe, which stated that states cannot deny students a Free and Appropriate Public Education because their immigration status because:

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Instead, use of the phrase "within its jurisdiction" confirms the understanding that the Fourteenth Amendment's protection extends to anyone, citizen or stranger, who is subject to the laws of a State, and reaches into every corner of a State's territory.

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So the SCOTUS could ignore the precedent and argue that it was wrong, but I just don't see this court doing that since it's a ruling that extended the rights, not restricted them.

But until then, illegal immigrants fall under the jurisdiction as decided by SCOTUS, and whether one agrees with that decision or not, it is the law of the land unless SCOTUS reverses that.