Lets take this silliness a little further, according to the current perverted interpretation of the 14th amendment, children born in the us to two illegal aliens are citizens of the US. Should they be able to run for President of the US? IN my book they should not even be citizens as they should not gain from the illegal acts of their parents. They should be citizens of their parents country. Run for President? Surely you jest, we have the right to control the CINC of our Armies, the leader of our nation, that is why our wise white male founding fathers put the Natural Born Citizen clause in the Constitution, so liberals down the road could not try and rationalize stupid ideas like near foreigners being President. The line has to be drawn somewhere and I think they are in the right place and should be enforced.
Easy. Jeez. You can't even ask a question around here nowadays. It's a hypothetical.
I don't think a person born of two foreigners on US soil would have the right to run for President. I think that is pretty clear. I think it gets more blurred once those two parents are both naturalized before the child's birth. The two people are the same genetically. The only difference is they have now taken the citizenship test, met the requirements for citizenship and sworn loyalty to the USA, been awarded citizenship by the relevent bureaucracy that does that. If I am not mistaken, their child would be completely legal to run for president because the child would be born of two American citizens on American soil (even though those two citizens were actually born in another country).
Where I'm digging at here is- lets say in this instance where the child is technically legal the parents have always taken the child back to the 'home country' once a year to visit relatives and experience his 'native culture'. I would present to you that there would be more questions of that child's actual loyalty because of its active immersion into the other culture than with my example of a child with an unknown father (who is actually a foreigner).
So, the legal technicality does not protect the country in that instance. The child would be completely legal but less loyal than a somewhat less legal child whose loyalty had no such questions.