When and how does a citizen at birth become naturalized?
Didn’t read the article per FR’s unwritten rule, huh? Skipped that day in HS Civics class? Got through life without knowing it?
Sigh, here goes. Being born on US soil or a child of a military person being born on “US soil” on base makes you a US citizen. Being an immigrant and going through the legal process will legally give you citizenship. However, the founding fathers took it up a notch for POTUS from Vattel’s Law of Nations which are laws based on England, France, Germany, etc. A Natural Born Citizen requires the person to be born on US soil and have both parents being US citizens no matter which way they got their citizenship prior to the kid’s birth.
BTW, Obama signed his name to the 2 parent bit but he was never vetted...
This extra special requirement has to do with loyalty. If Xi’s gf were to come to the US to birth their baby would he/she be loyal to the US or to mama and daddy’s homeland? Would you want to take the chance in the voting booth? As loyal to the US as Trump’s kids are, the only one who is eligible for POTUS is Tiffany because Ivana and Melania didn’t have US citizenship at the time of the babies’ births.
If you would have read the entire article you would have learned the answer to your question. Naturalization as a basic “Citizen” kind of Citizen at birth is granted via U.S. man-made naturalization law Title 8 Section 1401 enacted under the naturalization powers granted to Congress in the U.S. Constitution: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1401&num=0&edition=prelim
BOTH PARENTS MUST ALREADY BE CITIZENS OF THE USA WHEN THE CHILD IS BORN.
CANNOT DO A MULLIGAN.
"At birth." The citizen is naturalized "at birth."
Why? Because that's how congress wrote the law. They could have said he is automatically naturalized 2 months before birth, or 2 months after birth, but they wrote the statute to convey naturalization "at birth."
How? 14th amendment. It naturalizes anyone born here.
Don't believe me? Read the debate on the 14th amendment. The people in congress debating it explicitly state it is a "naturalization" amendment.
Getting citizenship "at birth" through the naturalization process of the 14th amendment is not the same as "natural citizenship."
Natural citizens don't need the 14th amendment.
Under the man-made naturalization law Title 8 Section 1401, said law adopted and passed by the U.S. Congress using the naturalization powers granted to the Congress under the U.S. Constitution. See: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1401 and https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C4-1-1/ALDE_00013160/