“Marco Rubio IS a natural born US Citizen. He was born in Miami, and nothing else has any bearing on his being a US Citizen”
Recently, right here on FR, there was an article posted about a Mexican woman who crossed the border, had a baby girl in an American hospital, and then returned home.
Let’s just suppose for a moment that the baby girl is raised in Mexico, speaking Spanish, educated “as a Mexican”, with loyalties to Mexico.
Let’s also suppose that at age 18 she walks into the American embassy down in Mexico and asserts her claim to U.S. citizenship (which she will be granted by the circumstances of her birth). After doing so, she remains in Mexico as an “American citizen”.
Let’s suppose that at age 36, she returns to America (after a 36-year absence), and runs for the presidency (as absurd as that may appear on its face).
If she does, she will be AS QUALIFIED AS MARCO RUBIO to hold the office of the presidency of the United States. No difference. NONE AT ALL (all shouting intentional).
This is not what the founders intended.
“Natural born citizen” is intended to mean something -more-.
Marco Rubio does not meet those qualifications. My opinion only.
But if by chance he does get picked to be VP, we are going to hear a lot more about it.
To be qualified to be president a person must have also been resident of the U.S. for 14 years.