“You still don’t seem to be “getting” that those were “naturalization” laws, meaning anyone to whom they applied was “naturalized”, not “natural born.”
What you don’t seem to get is that “collective naturalization” occurs when a political entity, such as a brand spanking new nation like The United States of America, first creates its own citizens or when an existing nation adds new territory and citizens. For example, former slaves were collectively naturalized in 1868 and American Indians were collectively naturalized in 1924. Collective Naturalization also occurred for residents of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Texas in 1845, and Hawaii in 1898.
“Natural born” and “collectively naturalized” are synonymous. We know that is the case because the Naturalization Act of 1790 is defining who can be a “natural born citizen” while being born “beyond the sea or out of the jurisdiction of the United States.”
Wong Kim Ark could not have been naturalized as an immigrant due to the Chinese Exclusion Acts. The legal issue was that because he was born in San Francisco, was he a natural born citizen/Citizen of the United States at Birth.
There are people who want to put natural born citizen and Citizen of the United States at Birth into separate categories but that position has never prevailed in the states or at the federal level.
Colonial Naturalization (Pre-1790)
British immigrants were automatically citizens of the colonies (British Empire). Seven of the original colonies had their own laws for naturalizing foreigners as citizens of the British Empire colony. After the Revolutionary War, the individual states established their own naturalization laws and procedures.
3 Types of Colonial Naturalization
Denization—A type of naturalization used to obtain land. You could buy and sell land, but could not hold public office. There were no political privileges associated with denization.
Oath of Allegiance—This type of naturalization during the colonial period was used to renounce all former country loyalties. This gave the immigrant full privileges, including voting and holding public office.
Collective citizenship—This naturalization process was used to naturalize a group of people without using documents. Collective naturalization happened when the United States became a country in 1776 and all those living in the country (except Native Americans and African Americans) were collectively and automatically made US citizens.
No they aren't, and it makes me wonder about your mental processes to see you assert such a nonsensical idea.
That statement has left me completely befuddled as to how to respond to you. It's like we don't even share a common understanding of words or something.