So by your simplistic “he was born in Cincinnati” theory- a Chinese spy could land in Ohio one dark rainy night, squirt out a child, fly back to China, raise that child in China as CCP member, fly him/her back 40 years later and he/she could enter the primary? Assume office after he or she wins in the general election? Nope. Sorry but there is such a thing as a natural born citizen. Both parents are citizens, and you are born on the land.
Yes. He could. If they could show a birth certificate.
The child of that Chinese spy would be a U.S. citizen. But there’s no need to consider if the child is “natural born” or not.
That’s because of a little-known requirement to be eligible for the presidency: The person must be a United States resident for at least 14 years. So the child would be ineligible based on you saying that he lived his whole life in China.
Side note: Kinda clever for the Founders to throw that requirement in.
Squirt away. I’m just telling you what the law is.
Isn’t that what a campaign is for?
And two people, born in Dearborn, MI, could conceive and birth a child, then immediately take the family to Iran to go to train for jihad. That child, born of two US citizens in the US, could come back to the US 35 years later and run for president.
How is that a different scenario?
You are correct. The founders wanted ALL Presidents after a certain date to have citizen parents and born on our land. All this is based on English common law which they used. The reason is that if your parents who raised you were citizens you should have an allegiance only to the US. Unless I missed it in the last 10 years tho,this has never been adjudicated. Obama was the test…we failed it because Republicans are chicken noses. It may be too late now. I don’t know. So the person who posted that Putin wife could drop a child here, get citizenship, return and raise that child in Russia. Then that child could come to America and run for President….is actually a perfect example. The Founders were brilliant. Our law makers are not.
You are correct. The founders wanted ALL Presidents after a certain date to have citizen parents and born on our land. All this is based on English common law which they used. The reason is that if your parents who raised you were citizens you should have an allegiance only to the US. Unless I missed it in the last 10 years tho,this has never been adjudicated. Obama was the test…we failed it because Republicans are chicken noses. It may be too late now. I don’t know. The Founders were brilliant. Our law makers are not.