[YellowRoseofTx]

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.

[Retired Intelligence Officer]

That’s what I thought. He can be qualified to be governor but not president. Right?

[darkwing104]

OK, When was the Constitution rewritten?

[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.

[Tublecane]

“Born here makes him a citizen, but not a natural born citizen if his parents were not citizens at his birth.”

There is no such thing as a born citizen who is not a “natural born citizen.”

[murron]

If that was the case, then there would be many presidents in the early days of our country who would not have been eligible due to their parents not being citizens of the U.S.

[cynwoody]

Born here makes him a citizen, but not a natural born citizen if his parents were not citizens at his birth.

Where's it say that?

[longtermmemmory]

not this tinfoil hat junk again....

he was born on US soil he is a us citizen eligible to be president.