Is Bobby Jindal Eligible To Become President If He Was Born Before Parents Were Naturalized?

[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.

R.I.O.

[frogjerk]

Yes, he is eligible because not a single person amomg us “has standing” to question otherwise

[WOSG]

YES.

Jindhal is a natural-born citizen of the USA.

And people who say otherwise need to lay off the wacky weed.

[classified]

yep born and raised in Baton Rouge and is a Catholic

[livius]

He’s a natural born citizen, regardless of where his parents came from or whether they were citizens. The Constitutional provision covering this was explicitly written to cover people who may not have been born in the US (and in fact, nobody could have been born in the US because it didn’t exist prior to the Constitution!) but were residents of what became the US at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.

[Retired Intelligence Officer]

How can he be a natural born citizen when he was born to parents who weren’t naturalized yet?

[bvw]

No. BOTH his parents would have had to be naturalized citizens before his birth.

[kosciusko51]

Since the US Constitution refers to the "Law of Nations", which is a reference to Vattel's Law of Nations that defines a natural-born citizens as (Book 1, Section 19, Paragraph 212):

The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. ... I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.

Therefore, even a person born in the US is not a natural-born citizen if both parents are not citizens. So, no, he would not.

[livius]

Not like Obama...born and raised who knows where and is a who knows what...

[panthermom]

You got that right! :p

[biggredd1]

bobby jindal is not a natural born citizen and thus NOT qualified to be president. Try senate resolution 511 written by the commies regarding jacko mccain.

[goldstategop]

Yes... the natural born provision is now derelict. I see no reason I can’t run for President even though I was born in Canada.

[Porterville]

I’m so tired of goofy presidents.

[frogjerk]

He is native born but not natural born

[iowamark]

Because that is what the law says. Those who make claims otherwise will not find any support in the courts.

[panthermom]

Then he is NOT a NBC.

[Retired Intelligence Officer]

That is what I was thinking. I don’t understand the confusion how people can’t see this. I was watching Fox news about a hour ago and he was being interviewed. The reporter asked him if he was thinking of running for president for 2012 and he said he liked being governor. Don’t the reporters know he can’t qualify because he doesn’t meet Article 2 Section 1 of the Constitution?

[WOSG]

“macho charisma”

Neither does Palin. That’s overrated anyway.

One thing - Jindhal have the executive leadership, the conservative credentials, and he would beat Obama.

That makes him a better bet than any of the other names running.

[Domandred]

I think you have the only answer that applies after 2008.

[BruCru]

At this stage, it appears anyone is eligible to be POTUS.

[darkwing104]

In Legel terms..

Birthright citizenship may be conferred by jus soli or jus sanguinis. Under United States law, any person born within the United States (including the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands)[1] and subject to its jurisdiction is automatically granted U.S. citizenship,[2] as are many (though not all) children born to American citizens overseas.

The same fact applies to anchor babies. He was born here by birth right he is an American. This is backed up by the 14th Amendment Section 1.

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Now, Prove me Wrong.