If the framers meant for anchor babies to be considered “NBC”, then why use that phrase? What is natural about foreigners coming into this country to give birth?
Why didn't the Framers just say “anyone born on US soil can be the president”
Any kid born in the US to any diplomat or any illegal immigrant can become our president?
No, to call Rubio an “anchor baby” is getting pretty racist. An “anchor baby” would not be nBC since the parents would be here illegally. Rubio parents were here legal and legal residents.
Because "natural born" was a legal term, and all of the Framers and anyone else who had studied law knew what it meant.
Pretty much anybody born in the country was considered a "natural born" subject or citizen of the country, because they were BORN INTO that country.
The exceptions were children of foreign diplomats who were there in the service of a foreign government, and of foreign royalty and members of invading armies, because they weren't under the authority of OUR government.