NBC includes them, stop with the foolishness.
What needs to happen is for Congress to legislate that people who are here only temporarily—here illegally, or on tourist, student, or permanent residence cards—the children they have while here are *not* citizens.
People who are here on green cards— their minor children will become citizens when they become citizens.
And the children of US citizens born abroad must live here for a certain amount of time while growing up (something like 5 years or more) in order to receive US citizenship upon completion of their residency period.
(This is because there are people who come here, get their US citizenship, then return to their home country with the added value of being a US citizen—i have met people who do this. Definitely helps in the marriage market, but they don’t want to be here or contribute to this nation.)
Until this is legislated, all those you mention are NBC so it is foolish to run around saying they are not
The founders would not think so.
Baloney. Harris and Cruz are not NBC’s. Read this and learn what the founders and framers understood the term “natural born Citizen” meant when they wrote it and where they go it: http://www.kerchner.com/protectourliberty/naturalborncitizen/TheWhoWhatWhenWhereWhyandHowofNBC-WhitePaper.pdf
Well, help me out.
The Constitution qualifies federal elected officials in two different ways: those who are "citizens" and those who are "natural born citizens". The latter term applies to only the Commander-in-Chief and his immediate successor the VP, just two people out of the entire nation.
As we know, the second term, NBC, was prompted out of concern that the head of our armed forces would not hold any parentage form of possible allegiance to a foreign government say, for example, England or France.
Also, since the founders knew it was not possible in the near future for a candidate to have been born in the U.S. they were just forming, they provided that any citizen at the time of adoption of the Constitution could serve as Commander.
How do you think the founders distinguished between the two classes?