A “natural born” citizen’s parents are both citizens at the time of birth. The issue that gave rise to the term was allegience to the country.
A person born here to non-citizen parents can only be a citizen if those parents were here under a resident alien visa, and thus having surrendered to the laws of the United States, IOW, there is no such thing as an “anchor baby.”
>>>>A “natural born” citizen’s parents are both citizens at the time of birth.
I’m sorry, but your answer is legally incorrect. There are many other ways. I send you a filed brief on it later.
No, there is no legal requirement that the parents be citizens. A "natural born" citizen is one that has citizenship by birth.
"A person born here to non-citizen parents can only be a citizen if those parents were here under a resident alien visa, and thus having surrendered to the laws of the United States, IOW, there is no such thing as an “anchor baby.”"
US law is that a child born in the US is a citizen, regardless of the citizenship of the parents.
“A person born here to non-citizen parents can only be a citizen if those parents were here under a resident alien visa, and thus having surrendered to the laws of the United States, IOW, there is no such thing as an “anchor baby.””
I’m sorry, but this is patently false. Pregnant Mexican women are always crossing over into California to deliver their babies. Those babies are citizens and are entitled to benefits. The government then has a hard time deporting the mothers, because they can’t deport the citizen infants, too.
Now, SCOTUS may have to rule on whether these babies are “natural born” citizens, but they are most definitely called “citizens”.