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obama is a native born citizen assuming that he was born in Hawaii(?). If he was born in Kenya ,his mother was too young to convey citizenship and that would make him a kenyan national.Children of naturalized(full allegiance) citizens are Natural born citizens .A child born to immigrants ( persons going though the immigration process) but are not yet Naturalized are native born (Wong Kim Ark). If obama was born in Hawaii he is a native born citizen( per U.S. supreme court) and ineligible to be President.

Obama automatically lost conferred birthright Kenyan citizenship at age 23. Kenya does not recognize dual citizenship and requires a person to affirmatively select to be Kenyan at age 21 but they give you a two year grace period. When Obama didn’t elect to be Kenyan on his 23rd birthday, he lost his Kenyan citizenship.
No law passed by Congress and no decision by the Supreme Court has ever differentiated between a citizen-at-birth and a natural born citizen. The two terms have been used interchangeably in the law (along with the additional term “native born citizen.”

So a Mexican or Kenyan born here can become president and cede Arizona, New Mexico and California to Mexicans?

Pretty cool for Mexico... lucky for them we don't have a provision providing for derivation of pure American citizenship at birth for our president. For pur loyalties to America. I wonder how the founders would have phrased that clause while looking to Vattel, Law of nations, for a simple definition? After Washington received the letter from John Jay?