RE: If the alien parent is only in the country temporarily, then not necessarily.
Then we have to really check Bobby Jindal’s status. I don’t think his parents were permanent residents at the time of his birth.
Why not? They had acquired green cards via his father's profession. They lived in the U.S. prior to, at, and following the time of Jindal's birth.
Contrast that with Obama's father, who only had authorization for a temporary stay in the U.S., and had not lived in the U.S. beyond 3 years after Obama's birth because the U.S. refused to extend his temporary stay any further.
Jindal is a U.S. citizen via U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, but not necessarily a 'natural born citizen' for the purpose of Constitutional Presidential eligibility.
I don’t see how that’s pertinent to the issue at hand. There’s a higher standard for the presidency than there is for someone acquiring citizenship.
Folks tend to err on either side.
They either apply the conditions of the presidency to everyone else (which we see here in this thread), or they assume the Presidency requires the exact same thing, (it doesn’t).
Why is this so hard? President requires NBC - which means Born in America over 35 and two citizen parents. Everything else - does not. Cruz doesn’t meet this standard.