As were several MILLION babies born to foreign mothers impregnated by American GI's. Are they all eligible? I don't think so. Its a stupid argument from a lawyer who should know better.
Excellent point.
Legal arguments do not have to make sense to you, but actully you are correct that a child born of an American over seas that does not have to be naturalized is by that fact a citizen at birth and there fore a natural born citizen. Unless you want to claim that C-sections do not count or some other notion.
* C-section was for humor it has been most lacking about FR of late.
What you think is irrelevant. What I think is also irrelevant. What is relevant are the current laws. And yes, millions of babies that you describe are, under current law, US citizens at birth and NBCs.
“babies born to foreign mothers impregnated by American GI’s.”
They must be citizens. If an American woman get pregnant from a foreign man, has the baby overseas, that baby is a citizen...Cruz
If an American man gets a foreign woman pregnant and she has the baby overseas, that baby must be a citizen.
Otherwise it is sexiest! Whose body the baby is in before birth should not have any bearing on the legal citizenship of the baby.