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I don't get how so many of you on this thread are all against foreigners allowed to run for the presidency when the whole topic is to allow naturalized citizens to run for office.
In case you don't understand, a naturalized citizen is someone who was born in another country but subsequently attained US citizenship legally. After all, none of the so-called "Founding Fathers" of this country were US citizens; they were all British citizens...immigrants....foreigners.
And another thing you guys fail to take into account is that if this amendment were to pass it would only allow for "foreigners" to run for president provided that they had been naturalized citizens of the United States for at least twenty-one years.
For someone to become a US citizen they must first be a legal permanent resident of the United States for five years, and then they have the option of applying for US citizenship or renewing their resident alien status after ten years. So basically, by the time a "foreigner" would hypothetically be eligible to run for office he (or she) would have been living in this country legally for twenty-six years, ladies and gentlemen.
So let's think this through logically, people.... We're not talking about just any foreigner coming to the USA and running for office on a whim here. We're talking about people who although born in another country have sworn an oath of loyalty to the United States and kept it true for at least twenty-six years, and unlike natural-born citizens who just happened to be born American, these people made a conscious and deliberate choice to give their loyalty to the USA. On the other hand you could have a person who was natural-born US citizen (either born of American parents abroad or born on US soil) grow up abroad most of his life in a foreign country he's more likely to be loyal to than the USA and come back to run for president, and nobody would give him shit for that simply because he was born American? Come on...
So in conclusion, this argument that a naturalized citizen wouldn't be loyal to the USA is complete and utter bullshit.
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