Wrong. They were here on visas and they hadn’t gone through the naturalization process to make them legal citizens. You do know that you have to go through a naturalization process to become a LEGAL American when immigrating. If you believe both parents must be U.S. Citizens at the time of the child’s birth for the child to be a Natural Born Citizen, then Bobby Jindal has a problem. Under this definition, he would not be a Natural Born Citizen, and therefore, under Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution, he would not be eligible to be President of the United States. Amar and Raj Jindal are the Punjabi-born parents of Governor Bobby Jindal. Raj Jindal’s maiden name was Raj Gupta. According to nola.com:
http://blog.nola.com/updates/2007/12/a_passage_from_india.html
In fact, it was Gupta’s career move that brought the newly married couple to Louisiana.
Gupta was accepted as a graduate assistant at Louisiana State University when she was pregnant with Bobby. Her husband, who at the time was an assistant professor at a Chandigarh engineering college, was concerned about her moving overseas in her condition. LSU offered her one month of maternity leave if she joined the program, a deal the Jindals agreed was too good to turn down.
They moved in January 1971. Bobby was born soon after, in Baton Rouge.
Therefore, it seems reasonable to assume that at the time of Bobby Jindal’s birth, his parents were not U.S. citizens. In fact they could not have been U.S. Citizens at the time because citizenship in the United States always requires 5 years of residency in the United States before qualifying. It is clear that the Jindal’s were only here for a few months before Bobby Jindal was born.
Jindhal’s parents were legal immigrants who legally became US citizens. Any insinuation that they were not ‘legal’ is odious.
“If you believe both parents must be U.S. Citizens at the time of the child’s birth for the child to be a Natural Born Citizen” - As discussed at length in this thread, such a claim has zero basis in our constitution, US law, or court ruling. any person who is a US citizen at birth is a natural-born citizen, and Jindhal fits that.