The parents need not be NBCs, but mere Cs.
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Correct. But your average NBC moron constantly points out that Cruz’s, Kamala’s, Nikki,s Vivek’s, Obama’s etc. parents were not born in America and so that is a disqualifier.
They wanna believe that? Fine. That also leaves out the child of one Mary Trump who was born in Scotland.
So what’s my point?
NBC fan-bois are inconsistent. They are not fooling anyone.
The point could be that more people are eager to see Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 be recognized, in a rational manner, as having real teeth, than can get down to brass tacks, in an insightful way, about how this can or should happen.
The 14th Amendment begins in a way (All persons born or naturalized in the United States”) that seems at first glance to mandate citizenship (i.e., “mere” citizenship, certainly not necessarily the “natural born” citizenship) for most if not all individuals born here.
That has always seemed to One Guy to be a sophomoric interpretation. Surely we don’t need a Constitutional amendment in 2023 to prevent children of two non-citizens, never enslaved, possibly sworn enemies of the U.S., fully empowered to slip back to their home country the next day after the child’s birth, from being handed U.S. citizenship on a silver platter. But this is the destination so many 14th Amendment zealots keep trying to drag us to.