Posted on 11/12/2010 4:53:42 PM PST by Retired Intelligence Officer
I need some help on this. I was reading where Bobby Jindal was born to immigrants here on visas. If he was born in Baton Rouge before they became naturalized citizens, wouldn't that make him ineligible to become President? I am in a heated argument at another website over this and I need answers to this controversy. Any help would be appreciated.
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Don’t get yourself all worked up. If he was born in the USA, he is a citizen.
Why not? We have a Kenyan, Indonesian, Muslim for TOTUS right now.
I do not have time to research it at the moment but I believe by him being born here makes him a citizen of the USA.
He is more qualified than Obama, I don’t think Jindal put “Indian” on his college applications, the same way Obama put “indonesian” on his....
There are many citizens who are not eligible to be President because they were not born on US soil.
Well someone said that his parents had to be here 5 years before they could become citizens. If he was born before then, wouldn’t that make him not be a natural born citizen to become president as Article 2 Section 1 states?
Folks, being a US citizen is not enough to be eligible for president.
The short answer is no, he is not eligible. Born here makes him a citizen, but not a natural born citizen if his parents were not citizens at his birth.
He is NOT eligible.
If you go by the original intent, which is explicitly laid out in the Federalist Papers, not the interpretation, yes, he would be eligible, his parents are naturalized citizens who GAVE UP the allegiance to their birth country to become AMERICAN citizens AND he was born here!
The *Constitution of the United States* covers this issue in the 14th Amendment. If Jindal was born in the United States, he is a citizen. It does not matter what citizenship status his parents hold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_United_States
That’s what I thought. He can be qualified to be governor but not president. Right?
Jindal was born here. That’s what “birthright citizenship” is all about. That’s why the Chinese pay big bucks to fly pregnant women here, have them give birth in a US hospital, and then fly home with their baby...a new US citizen. It may be a little nutty, but that’s the law.
That said, since it is so easy, why couldn’t Obama even claim this much? People here get distracted by where his father was born, but the truth is, that doesn’t matter. If he was born here, he’s a citizen. So why doesn’t he show us the birth certificate that proves that he was born here - on such and such a day, at such and such a time, in such and such a US hospital. Probably because he wasn’t born here.
Jindal was.
Don’t get me wrong... I like the guy - but Bobby is not presidential material... Good guy ... Conservative and all - but he just doesn’t have that magic thing called charisma - macho charisma... for a nationwide audience... When he gave that Republican position speech a year or two ago - OMG how lame can one get... He is looking better now since he stood strong on the Gulf Shore... But....
Never the less... Hell - every other illegal alien parent is producing ‘American Citizens’ - at least his parents were here legally...
If he were a Democrat he would be eligible, but being a Republican presents problems.
He’s a Republican so he wouldn’t be eligible, but if he was a Democrat that would be OK. /S
Just guessing that your argument is with a liberal.
About 5 of them all against me on this.
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