It is unconstitutional to treat U.S. Citizens differently or as a seperate class, regardless of how they obtained their U.S. citizenship, with the only exception that the “natural born” citizen is eligible to be President. See Art. II, § 1 of the U.S. Constitution and Schneider v. Rusk, 377 U.S. 163 (1964), a U.S. SCOTUS decision which invalidated a law that treated naturalized and native-born citizens differentially under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. SCOTUS held that since no provision of the INA stripped natural-born Americans of their citizenship as a result of extended or permanent residence abroad, it was unconstitutionally discriminatory to apply such a rule only to naturalized citizens.
Consequently, only naturalized U.S. citizens are not eligible to be President or VP of the U.S. The determination of eligibility is the only exception the U.S. Constitution allows for distinguishing between a naturalized U.S. Citizen and any other U.S. Citizen.
If you don’t have a Certificate of Naturalization on file with DHS and you’re a U.S. citizen, then you’re eligible to be President. Obama is ineligible because he naturalized in 1983.
Evidence?
I and my only brother who was killed in the battle for Okinawa were born in the USA of immigrant, not naturalized i.e.foreign parents. I cannot speak for my brother but suspect we would be in agreement that our parents’ official status as foreigners precluded us from eligibility for POTUSA. Didn’t matter much to me as being an ordinary citizen was a blessing and obligation at the same time. I still believe that way.
>> “Consequently, only naturalized U.S. citizens are not eligible to be President or VP of the U.S” <<
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Simply not true. Only a Natural Born citizen qualifies.