I thought you have to be “BORN” within the borders of the United States to be Prez..
Sorry, that is incorrect.
“natural born” means that at the time of birth, the person is a citizen and does not need to be naturalized. Congress has the SOLE and EXCLUSIVE authority as an enumerated power in the Constitution to make the rules of naturalization. That means that Congress set the rules for who is and is not a citizen at birth. According to the rules set forth by Congress, Cruz is a natural born citizen.
George Romney was born in Mexico and John McCain was born in Panama.
The whole thing has been distorted over the past several decades in relation to the anchor baby issue. When empERROR 0’barky was spawned, the law at the time prevented his mother from legally conveying citizenship to him.... She was 18 at the time.
My wife was born in Germany, and she’s a U.S. citizen.
Under the law, one or both parents (either naturalized or NBC) MUST have lived in the U.S. for a minimum of five years after their fourteenth birthday in order to legally convey citizenship to the child.
For instance, children born here to foreign diplomats are not automatically U.S. citizens because they are born here
“I thought you have to be “BORN” within the borders of the United States to be Prez..”
Hahaha! What would you do about the children of our service men and women? Do you honestly believe that our Framers would have defined Natural Born to be “within the borders of the United States?” Remember, if that were the case, not one citizen of the new nation would have been eligible to run as President.
By their own history, the Framers must have defined Natural Born Citizen to mmean something beyond “born in the borders of the United States.”