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Whiskey, I agree with you regarding Jindal, but I disagree regarding Rubio.

Rubio was born years after his parents arrived in the US. His mother was already a naturalized citizen by then, and his father had appeared before a magistrate.

Had they been operating under the immigration law of 1792 they would have been citizens. If we are to use the 18th century understanding of “natural born”, then we should use the 18th century law of naturalization.

Marco Antonio Rubio was born in Miami, Florida on 28 May 1971. His parents, Mario and Oriales Garcia Rubio immigrated from Cuba to the United States in 1956. They were Citizens of Cuba, before the Communist conquest of the Cuban Government, who subsequently obtained status as permanent residents of the United States. Mario and Oriales Garcia Rubio did not become naturalized U.S. Citizens until 5 November 1975. They did not seek and complete their naturalization as U.S. Citizens until 19 years after their immigration from non-Communist Cuba and four years after the birth of their son, Marco Rubio.

Marco Rubio is reported to claim that he is a natural born citizen eligible to the Office of the President and Vice President. His claim is false, because he was born with automatic natural born Cuban citizenship in addition to the right to claim native born U.S. citizenship. No person who has ever been obligated with allegiance to a foreign sovereign can qualify as a natural born citizen whose one and only allegiance has ever been the sovereign Citizens of the United States.

Under Cuban law, Marco Rubio was born as a natural born citizen of Cuba, because his parents were natural born Cuban citizens. It is this natural born allegiance to Cuba which disqualifies Marco Rubio from eligibility in accordance with the natural born citizen clause, despite his nativity in the United States. Marco Rubio was eligible to claim his Cuban citizenship upon his reaching the age of majority. His subsequent acts confirming his statutory right to claim U.S. citizenship is in accordance with statutory law, which automatically precludes the inherent right of natural born citizenship not arising from statues.