The key question would be whether or not Haley’s parents were in the country legally when she was born. If they were and were not diplomats, they were “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. It can be reasonably argued that those who enter the US illegally are not subject to the jurisdiction of the US and while their children might be able to become citizens, they would not be natural born citizens.
RE: The key question would be whether or not Haley’s parents were in the country legally when she was born.
By all indications, THEY WERE HERE LEGALLY.
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley
Haley was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa at Bamberg County Hospital in Bamberg, South Carolina,[1][2][9] to immigrant Sikh parents from Amritsar, Punjab, India.[10][11]
Her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, had worked as a professor at Punjab Agricultural University in the 1950s, and her mother, Raj Kaur Randhawa, received her law degree from the University of Delhi.[12][13]
Both of her parents immigrated from India to Canada in 1964 after Ajit received a scholarship offer from the University of British Columbia.[14] After he received his PhD in 1969, he moved his family to South Carolina to be a professor of biology at Voorhees College, a historically black institution in Denmark, South Carolina.
He retired from teaching in 1998.[15] Raj earned her master’s degree in education and taught for seven years in Bamberg public schools. In May 1976, she started a popular women’s clothing boutique, Exotica International, in West Columbia.
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