No, Rubio was born in the United States, making him a citizen at birth and eliminating the need to be naturalized.
But the issue of Rubio's NBC status or lack thereof, and theerefore his constitutional eligibility for the vice presidency (the eligibility requirements for VP are exactly the same as for President, according to the Twelfth Amendment), boils down to whether or not his foreign-born parents were naturalized by the time of his birth.
Does anyone know the date on which Marco Rubio's parents were naturalized?
Rubio is a *native* citizen, under the 14th amendment. A statutory citizen.
I had read that his father became a US citizen when Rubio was four. I had also read something supposedly from Rubio himself that his parents had kind of always hoped to be able to go back.
That's a really silly thing to post for someone who is not a professional.
You are flying in the fact of a large volume of professional literature; an able opinion of an experienced expert professional published by the Congressional Research Service; and a volume of recent court experience, most recently the ALJ in Georgia who refused to even hear the argument, the answer is so clear.
The issue is about a forecast of what the U S Supreme Court would hold if confronted with the question of Rubio's eligibility to hold the office because of an objection based on the citizenship of his parents--the objection would not get any serious consideration; the Court will hold him eligible.
If what you mean is that the "natural born" clause ought to include some ancestral citizenship or residency or citizen commitment in edition to citizenship at birth of the candidate, I agree.
But as to the state of the law at present, you are simply living in a dream world.
Rubio’s parents were not naturalized until several years after his birth. Fortunately, the theory that a “natural-born citizen” under the Constitution means something different than the term “natural-born citizen” under federal law going back to 1791 has been disproven for well over a century (President Chester Arthur’s father was a British subject, as was the father of 1916 GOP presidential nominee Charles Evans Hughes). A natural-born citizen of the U.S. is a U.S. citizen at birth, plain and simple, and it is a misreading of the Minor Case to claim otherwise.
Romney should select a runningmate based on who can help him win and be ready to take over as president if need be, not based on a constitutional-law theory with almost no support among legal scholars and judges that apparently would only apply to Republicans (since every suit claiming that Obama is not an NBC due to his father’s citizenship has been laughed out of court). Personally, I think that Rob Portman would be a far better runningmate for Romney than would Marco Rubio, based on the merits, not on unilateral disarmament.
I thought Marco was four years old when his parents became citizens, naturalized citizens :-)
Marco Rubio
born May 28, 1971 in Miami, FL (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Mario Rubio born in Cuba, naturalized Nov. 5, 1975.
Oria Garcia born in Cuba, naturalized Nov. 5, 1975.
Parents were NOT US Citizens at the time of his birth (Does NOT meet the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Marco Rubio is NOT a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.
Marco's status is the same as that of Barry Soetoro, aka Barack Hussein Obama, who is NOT a Natural Born Citizen.
I’m sick and tired of this nonsense. Play time is over, the democrats are laughing at those who are turning birther arguments against Republicans like Rubio and Jindal.
It doesn’t matter if his parents were naturalized or not as long as they were legal resident aliens as I believe they were.
And hell unfortunately under current interpration of the law even the child of 2 illegal immigrants would be regarded as kosher.
No court is gonna stop Rubio from being sworn in if he is elected and that’s the end of the story. There is a case to be made he doesn’t deserve to be VP based on the MERITS. Those that don’t like him should stick to that (you know stuff people actually care about).