“”If Obama is eligible to be President then so are the sons of Osama Bin Laden, Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if they impregnate an American woman who gives birth on US soil. The very notion is obscene.
Such a person might be a US citizen under current policy, but their citizenship is not natural born and they cannot be President and Commander In Chief of the US armed forces.”
Leo Donofrio
http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2009/11/bad-cases-make-bad-law.html
“If Obama is eligible to be President then so are the sons of Osama Bin Laden, Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if they impregnate an American woman who gives birth on US soil.”
Not necessarily. The child also has to pass the other 14th amendment test (the “under the jurisdiction thereof” one). Otherwise, duh, of course they are. But call me crazy, I’m not so sure they’d have an easy time being elected.
“Such a person might be a US citizen under current policy, but their citizenship is not natural born and they cannot be President and Commander In Chief of the US armed forces”
When he says the person “might be a US citizen under current policy,” he means a citizen from birth. If one who is born a citizen is not a natural born citizen, I’ll eat my hat. Birthers really hate that “under current policy” part, right? Even if by “natural born citizen” the Framers meant the children of U.S. citizens, they didn’t say so. As much as it may be true that way back when 14th amendment babies weren’t born American citizens, they are now. Should’ve been more specific if you wanted to exclude anchor babies, Framers. Too bad, so sad.