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This is false. The Constitution lists only three qualifications for the Presidency: Be at least 35 years old, be a natural born citizen, and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years. Haley meets all of those. ‘Anchor babies’ are not illegal.
Sources
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-executive-branch/
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/19/1158172815/a-visit-to-nikki-haleys-hometown-where-race-still-exists
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/21/9187547/birthright-citizenship-anchor-babies
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.
The question centers around the meaning of the term “natural born citizen”. A compelling argument can be made, based on writings at the time of the Constitution’s framing, that the status of being a natural born citizen was not something that could be conveyed by statute and whose meaning was clear out the Constitution’s outset.
Being that birthright citizenship (i.e. automatically granting citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of their parent’s status) is a novel concept that wasn’t accepted by the framers, it’s likely that their meaning of the term didn’t include anchor babies or children born on U.S. soil to non-citizen parents.
We don’t grant citizenship to children born in the U.S. whose parents are ambassador’s from other countries. The idea of granting natural born citizen status to the offspring of a UN ambassador from Pakistan’s wife, because he or she was born in New York is patently absurd. How different is it to have been born in this country from non-citizen parents who were not ambassadors? Not very, IMO.
BE A “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN”
CLEAR AS CAN BE.
NOT A ‘NATURALIZED CITIZEN”.
SHE IS AN ANCHOR BABY
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-executive-branch/
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/19/1158172815/a-visit-to-nikki-haleys-hometown-where-race-still-exists
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/21/9187547/birthright-citizenship-anchor-babies
All lying garbage sources that I would not trust to tell me the sun was up.
When that was written, it wasn’t possible to simply be born in the United States to be a citizen.
Thus, Natural Born Citizen always required two citizen parents, AND born in the United States.
The idea that a court ruling or congressional legislation can change that without passing a Constitutional Amendment is false.
UNLESS, YOU FIRST DESTROY THE RULE OF LAW.