Posted on 01/18/2016 1:43:58 PM PST by South40
Lord help us.
>>> Loyalty to this nation and this nation alone.
Does not explain the importance of birthplace vs parent status. Obviously NB status is to ensure loyalty.
There is nothing in American law that says such a thing.
I don't know. This is one of the rare instances where a court should decide it. My only point was that Rubio is not an anchor baby.
The clinton donor is conning many and he’s gonna make them all feel stupid in the end
Liberal Donald Trump is more than a Clinton donor, much more. He is an ardent supporter.
I think that if Rubio rises in the polls, Trump might conceivably have something entirely different to say about his eligibility.
It has been said many times before, but it is true that Trump is a carnival barker who would make Phineas Taylor Barnum proud.
He’s just saying that because he wants his own kids to be able to be president someday.
Good grief, he can’t even get being a birther right.
I believe that to be true also. Trump has a long history of supporting liberal causes, policies and politicians. The best his followers can do is say he has changed (flip-flopped).
He has done a 180 on Rubio and as soon as he reads his gullible followers aren't happy about it he will flop again.
The man is a fraud.
lol! Every day it becomes more obvious the man is in well over his head. He twists in the wind going whatever which way his gullible followers want him to.
The Democrats are for sure going to file lawsuits in the highly unlikely event that Rubio would win - his recent support of amnesty and Syrian immigrants will not gain him votes. These lawsuits will prove to be disruptive - a greater mess than the Gore-Bush fight.
Rubio is just an empty suit. Odd how he speed-talks as if he is repeating one of his memorized speeches and licks his lips. There are numerous reasons why Rubio should not get our support.
Cuba may have granted Marco Cuban citizenship, passed by the blood of his parents, just like US law does. Looking for Cuban law on that point. The parents retain their Cuban citizenship until they renounce it. Once they do, Cuba relinquishes all claim on them.
If Cuban law has a jus sanguinas component, That would make Marco a dual citizen at birth. 14th amendment "born in the US", and Cuban by operation of law.
Obama is in that boat too, according to his asserted birth circumstance to a Kenyan father.
Tribe is probably a little old for Trump to pick him for the Supreme Court, but will Tribe be advising Trump on Supreme Court nominations as well?
No, Rubio is not an anchor baby, but is he a natural born citizen according to the Constitution. There is no settled law on this. We need to resolve this issue once and for all.
I agree. I, in some way, hope that Marco starts to rise in the polls so we can see how Trump plays this. If he goes after Rubio later on with the birther issue, it will make Trump look an even bigger fool than how he looks now.
Birth Abroad to One Citizen and One Alien Parent in Wedlock
A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) of the INA provided the U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child's birth. (For birth on or after November 14, 1986, a period of five years physical presence, two after the age of fourteen, is required. For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen, is required for physical presence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child.) The U.S. citizen parent must be the genetic or the gestational parent and the legal parent of the child under local law at the time and place of the child’s birth to transmit U.S. citizenship.
He [Marco] said of his parents: "They were from Cuba. They wanted to live in Cuba again. They tried to live in Cuba again, and the reality of what it was made that impossible."I still am of a mind that their residence was in the US (that is established, in my mind), but it implies an intention to retain Cuban citizenship, which means they had no intention of acquiring US citizenship. Acquiring US citizenship extinguishes their Cuban citizenship on the spot.
Also, they would have wanted to take their US-born children with them.
If jus sanguinas is controlling or superior to jus soli as a matter of natrual law, and those who argue for Cruz say that is the way it is, that is the rule of law, applying that same rule to Rubio disqualifies him.
True, but I doubt it will be.
Thanks, I’m aware of that law, have been for probably 6 or 7 years. Text of it appreciated, I don’t think it affects any contention I made in my post. I try to be reasonably precise in choice of words, so if you notice something I’ve said that is false, please point it out.
Born on American soil of two American citizen parents is what I was taught and have always believed...up until Obama.
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