“Yep, I keep asking for proof that it says both parents must be US citizens if someone is born in the US and you keep saying “Oh look at this shiny object I found” and it has NOTHING to do with this thread.”
“I’ll give you something easier. Why don’t you prove that Marco’s parents weren’t citizen when he was born. Are you sure they were not? They were Cuban exiles and most exiles were granted citizenship. So, let’s see your proof that they were not.”
Just because you refuse or are incapable of understanding what you are reading does not indicate the natural born citizen phrase does not mean what John Jay intended for it to mean or what Vatel’s Law of Nations says that it means. I have no idea whatsoever what the citizenship of Rubio’s parents were at the time of his birth, and I have no reason to ask and intrude upon their privacy until and unless Rubio should ever campaign for the Office of the President.
Perhaps you would care to propose a reason why the Democrats tried and failed these recent years to amend the U.S. Constitution to permit a person not having two U.S. citizens at birth to be eligible for President? The Democrats had to already know a person having less than two U.S. citizen parents were not natural born citizens eligible to the Office of the President, otherwise there would have been no reason for them to attempt to enact such an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In Rubio's case, his parents came to the US as exiles in 1959 and because of the special treatment of Cuban exiles and the ease with which they obtained citizenship (far different than any other people) they are very likely citizens and were citizens at his birth in 1971.
They were exiles due to the communist takeover of a country 90 miles from our shore and were in danger of losing their lives. It was during the cold war, we hated communism (not like now where half the US thinks it's "cool").
If you can not tell the difference between Obinkies situation and Rubio's situation then there is no hope for you.
You are so blinded by your quest you can't see there is a difference between an orange and an apple. Just because they are round doesn't mean they are the same.