[norwaypinesavage]

I'm under the impression that Cuban refugees from that time frame became legal residents as soon as both feet touched dry land on US soil.

BTW the requirements for veep are the same as the requirements for president.

[Godebert]

"I'm under the impression that Cuban refugees from that time frame became legal residents as soon as both feet touched dry land on US soil."

WHAT THE VENUS CASE SAYS ON CITIZENSHIP - 1814

In the Venus Case, Justice Livingston, who wrote the unanimous decision, quoted the entire §212nd paragraph from the French edition, using his own English, on p. 12 of the ruling: Vattel, who, though not very full to this point, is more explicit and more satisfactory on it than any other whose work has fallen into my hands, says:

“The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. Society not being able to subsist and to perpetuate itself but by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.

“The inhabitants, as distinguished from citizens, are strangers who are permitted to settle and stay in the country. Bound by their residence to the society, they are subject to the laws of the state while they reside there, and they are obliged to defend it…