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Just think about this for a moment. If Rep. Mark Rubio, who was born on U.S. soil, in 1971, to Cuban nationals who fled their homeland to America, can be declared eligible to be a candidate for the U.S. Presidency, a son, or daughter born to Mexican parents, while in the U.S. on visa status, can be as equally eligible, and you know that this is not right. Rubio's parents were naturalized as U.S. citizens in 1975, four years after he was born, which makes Rubio fully eligible to be elected to any congressional office, but not to the office of President. Why? The U.S. Constitution stipulates that a presidential candidate must be a natural-born citizen. This simply means that the mother and father of the person desiring candidacy must be citizens of the United States at the time of the candidate's birth. Since Rubio's parents were Cuban at the time of his birth, the Florida senator is not eligible to be a U.S. President. This is the same basis for the challenge against Barack Obama's eligibility to be President. Unfortunately, no one in Congress questioned whether Obama was a natural-born ctizen at the time he was declared a candidate in 2008, as they did John McCain. And now it is pretty clear, from the evidence that has been presented by Dr. Jerome R. Corsi, in his book, "Where's the Birth Certificate," that Obama's long-form birth certificate, which the White House posted on the Internet, is utterly fraudulent, that the Social Security Number claimed by Barack Obama was actually assigned much earlier in time to an elderly person born in Connecticut in 1890. According to the Social Security Administration, it is impossible for a person to be properly assigned a Social Security number that has already been assigned to another U.S. citizen.
Presently, it seems as though everyone regards the age requirement set by the U.S. Constitution for a President as essential, but not the natural-born citizenship requirement. To me, the citizenship requirement is much more important than the one for minimum age. Now, I'm not going to say that a forty-year-old person would not be as wise and prudent a President as a forty-five year old individual, but I can think of many substantial reasons for not allowing, for example, Marco, the hypothetical son of hypothetical Ramon and Dalia Salazar, who where Mexican citizens at the time of Marco's birth on American soil, to be eligible to eventually run for the presidency. This is because an American President represents every American citizen, not the U.S. residents who are not American citizens. A President is elected only by the combined electorates (citizens) of the 50 States (hopefully no legal, or illegal, aliens vote in the elections). I believe that this point clarifies why a candidate for the presidency should have no history of conflicting parental citizenship. It would cast a doubt on his, or her, allegiance to the U.S. Constitution. This is why the U.S. Constitution requires that an eligible candidate for the U.S. Presidency must be the off-spring of parents who are both U.S. citizens at the time of the candidate's birth.
Allow me to provide another poignant hypothetical example that will also incorporate a senario involving illegal immigration. Let's say that Silvia Lopex, a Mexican citizen in Juarez, Mexico, got pregnant and planned with her husband, Juan, to illegally cross the US. Border, which runs between Texas and Mexico. As they conspired to make this illegal crossing late during Silvia's eighth-month of pregnancy, the two of them wanted to ensure that Silvia would deliver her child, or children, on American soil. So the day arrived for Silvia and Juan to illegally immigrate into the United States, and they were abruptly spotted by the U.S. Border Patrol when they were a quarter-mile across the border, inside the United States. Silvia began to run from the pursuing Border Patrol officers, which induced labor and culminated in the immediate birth of Jesus, Silvia's first child. Since Jesus was born on American soil, a quarter-mile beyond the border, he became a U.S. citizen by birth, but not a natural-born U.S. citizen because both of his parents were illegal Mexican immigrants at the time. Nonetheless, both Juan and Silvia, criminals by nature of their illegal actions, were subsequently allowed by a Hispanic immigration law judge to remain in the United States in order to take care of Jesus. Time quickly passed and Silvia and Juan were later allowed to become naturalized U.S. citizens. Then forty-four years elapsed as Jesus grew-up, became a lawyer, and, later, a Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas. Suddenly, the Democratic Party wanted Jesus to run for U.S. President. But was Jesus eligible to be a candidate for the republic's highest office? No, he wasn't, because his parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of his birth. Though eligible to be a U.S. representative, he was not eligible to run for the Presidency, even if Congress turned a blind-eye to Jesus' lack of natural-born citizenship. The big question is why a Congress, any Congress, would turn a blind-eye to a strict requirement set-forth in the sacred document to which each of the U.S. representatives and Senators has sworn fidelity, the U.S. Constitution. If a Congress wants to change the letter of the U.S. Constitution to alter the natural-born citizen requirement, let them propose a constitutional amendment and bring it before the People for ratification. For them to ignore the law, and rudely pretend that the requirement is not there in the Constitution, is the height of illegal insult to a legacy of law bequeathed, by the honored Framers, to the People.
Norton R. Nowlin took M.A. and B.A. degrees in the social and behavioral sciences from the University of Texas at Tyler, studied law for one full year at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, in San Diego, California, and earned an ABA-approved advanced paralegal certification from Edmonds Community College, in Lynnwood, Washington. Mr. Nowlin has attended LaJolla, California's National University and Malibu's Pepperdine University to attain graduate credits in business management and economics. Mr. Nowlin also attained a Texas State Teaching Certification, in social studies and psychology, from the University of Texas at Tyler. A paralegal, published essayist, poet, and free-lance fiction writer, Mr. Nowlin resides in Northern Virginia with his wife, the renown math tutor, Diane C. Nowlin, and their two very intelligent cats.
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