accrding to you, any anchor baby could be president.
I always thought that until this matter came up. Since the matter seems so convaluted, why not just say you can only be President if you were born in the United States and BOTH parents must be born in the United States. That is it. I mean come on, we have only had 44 Presidents out of trillions of people to begin with. Let’s go on the side of difficulty. If one of your parents were born outside of the United States than too bad for you. You will be like most, you will NEVER be the President of the United States.
George Romney was born in Mexico.
“......you can only be President if you were born in the United States and BOTH parents must be born in the United States.”
Fortunate in that that standard for NBC is not that the parents themselves be NBCs as your scenario implies. NBC only requires CITIZEN parents. The parents may be Naturalized Citizens or any of the many combination of born citizen qualities.
Rather than being a huge obstacle to the Office of POTUS as your post suggests, the NBC requirement restricts only a very small portion of the US population. The vast majority of US citizens are born in the country to citizen parents....(NBCs). The NBC requirement, in truth isn’t very restrictive to the population. In fact it is the very minimum that could be reasonably applied....What’s the fuss trying to overturn even this minimal requirement?