Wrong. There are only three kinds of citizen status in the constitution. Naturalized, Natural Born, and Aliens.
If you gain citizenship by birth, you are Natural Born. It is not some parlor game of pre-colonial British common law.
You may not like it but it’s a fact.
If they were an infant, and their parents wanted to leave the United States with them, could the United States government prevent their parents from taking them? No.
If the infant's parents were deported, would the United States government prevent them from taking their child with them under a claim of the infant being a U.S. citizen? No.
If they were an infant and their parents died, would the United States government prevent their grandparents from returning them to their mother country? No.
The child was subject to the laws of their parents' home country (or countries), not the United States, and those not subject to the laws of the United States are not natural born citizens.
NOT EXACTLY:
NATURAL BORN PERSON MUST BE BORN IN USA AFTER BOTH PARENTS ARE CITIZENS.
THIS IS PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE WHEN PARENTS CAME TO USA FROM OTHER COUNTRY
THEY CAN COME HERE—GET THEIR OWN CITIZENSHIP STATUS-—THEN HAVE A CHILD HERE-—THEN THAT CHILD WOULD BE NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.
IF PARENTS NOT USA CITIZENS WHEN CHILD IS BORN HERE—CHILD IS ANCHOR BABY
WE HAVE millions of anchor babies
that it is.
Well that's not quite correct. I spent much of the day perusing the debates on the 14th amendment, and they flat out say the 14th amendment is a naturalization process.
You can be born a citizen, but only because congress created a naturalization statute that takes effect when you are born.
You aren't a natural citizen, you are a congress made "naturalized" citizen.