[El Gato]

A born citizen and a natural born citizen are synonomous and there are scores of Supreme Court decisions that back that up.

Not hardly. There is a decision as recent as 1971 that says those born citizens, who are citizens because of 8 USC 1401, who were born outside the US are naturalized and not even covered by the 14th amendment, since they are not "naturalized in the United States". Basically the decision indicates that their "citizenship from birth" may be removed for failure to meet certain criteria. This is not true of person's naturalized in the US, unless it can be determined that they were naturalized based on fraudulently provided information.

[jamese777]

Not hardly. There is a decision as recent as 1971 that says those born citizens, who are citizens because of 8 USC 1401, who were born outside the US are naturalized and not even covered by the 14th amendment, since they are not “naturalized in the United States”. Basically the decision indicates that their “citizenship from birth” may be removed for failure to meet certain criteria. This is not true of person’s naturalized in the US, unless it can be determined that they were naturalized based on fraudulently provided information.

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“I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”