An anchor baby is NOT a natural born citizen. His parents were immigrants albiet legal IMMIGRANTS. Rubio’s parents did not begin their immigration and naturalization process until more than four years after Marco’s birth, more than fifteen years after they took residence in the U.S. Therefore, they could not confer upon Marco that which they did not possess at his birth, U.S. Citizenship.
RE: An anchor baby is NOT a natural born citizen. His parents were immigrants albiet legal IMMIGRANTS. Rubio’s parents did not begin their immigration and naturalization process until more than four years after Marco’s birth, more than fifteen years after they took residence in the U.S. Therefore, they could not confer upon Marco that which they did not possess at his birth, U.S. Citizenship.
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The English common law rule, under which a person’s citizenship was determined by the place of his birth, was known as jus soli.
The United States generally follows this rule.
Authority for this rule is found in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states that: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
The Supreme Court endorsed the universality of this rule in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark 169 U.S. 649, 18 S. Ct. 4561142 L. Ed. 890 (1898). The constitutional rule of jus soli has been construed generously and almost always has endowed all persons born in the United States with United States citizenship.