I have to go to bed — I work graveyard, so I cannot read all the posts tonight (although I will tomorrow when I get home). So please indulge me ...
There is a poster here at FR that recently posted one of the pages of the document handed to immigrants to study. It described the requirements to be POTUS, including the born on US soil and of two citizen parents thing. I hope this individual posts it again. Evidently, it is published by the DOJ!
I am troubled by the Cruz thing, as I have stated before. But I am FAR, FAR more troubled by the Rubio thing — this is downright dangerous, this one. At least Obama and Cruz had one citizen parent at birth — Rubio’s parents did not bother becoming citizens until years later. His situation would completely dissolve the difference between natural born citizen and just plain old birthright citizenship. If legal US status of parents (but not citizens) vs illegal status of parents (again, not citizens) are blurred (citizen vs. non citizen parents), I fear we are lost once and for all. This means all the medical tourism, the ElChapos (anchor baby kids), Bin Laden’s (anchor baby kids)..pays off for people who have not a nickel’s worth of loyalty to America. And yet they will be able to have children who can grow up, run for office & send American young people to war? Are you freaking kidding me?
I would like to see, upon the conclusion of the 2016 election, a serious somber bi-partisan group of legislators work together on this. They will need to include the finest historical scholars, both sides of the aisle, and determine a proper and legal definition of this term, once and for all.
Because we have people in office advocating almost unlimited immigration and others wanting refugees from as far as the eye can see, courtesy of the Middle East.
We’re going to need to nail down a solid definition of who’s who.
>>We’re going to need to nail down a solid definition of who’s who.<<
Absolutely agree with you. If foreign born or anchor babies (Rubio) are allowed to get elected POTUS, we’ll never see an NBC candidate again from the Democrat side (unless they are from a certified victim class as well as Marxist).
Setting up a constitutional wall right now would serve patriots well.