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I also guess using the logic of “Must have 2 US Citizen Parents” and “Must be Born on US Soil” really screws the people of Point Roberts, WA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington

Imagine an American couple tying to get to the hospital (no medical facilities exist in Point Roberts) but because they have to go through 2 border check-points to get to the mainland USA in Blaine or Belligham, the wife can’t make it and they have to divert to Vancouver, BC. So under the scenario so many birthers give, the child isn’t an NBC which is just utter nonsense.

Or what about an American couple that go out on a Bahamas cruise while the woman is 5-6 months pregant and for whatever reason goes into early labor and a medical emergency ensues and she gives birth on the Cruise ship somewhere in the Atlantic in International waters. Let’s say the cruise ship is a non-US company. So the child isn’t a NBC?

Or what about the fateful day when scientists start cloning people or growing babies in test tubes. Are they NBC? Or women that have to have C-Sections to give birth, are those children MBC?

Or what about a Russian male that donates sperm to a fertility clinic in the US and a woman uses it to give birth. Is the child a NBC even though nobody knows who the father is except the fertility clinic?

Or what about an American couple that finds a German woman (non-US Citizen) to act as a surrogate mother. Is that child an NBC?

This is why the birther argument is so dumb. The list could go on and on. Ted Cruz is a Natural Born Citizen.