The child always follows the allegiance of the father. http://www.usnaturalborncitizen.com/meaningofnaturalborn.html
Harris was born Oct. 20, 1964, and her father was a citizen of Jamaica at the time of her birth.
Specifically, Chapter 2 (entitled Citizenship) of the Jamaica Constitution, Section 3C states:
Every person born outside Jamaica shall become a citizen of Jamaica –
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on the sixth day of August 1962, in the case of a person born before that date; or
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on the date of his/her birth, in the case of a person born on or after the sixth day of August 1962,
if, at that date, his/her father or mother is a citizen of Jamaica by birth, descent, or
registration by virtue of marriage to a citizen of Jamaica.
Yeah. I was always told in school you have to be a natural born citizen which means your parents have to BOTH be citizens and you have to be born in the US or a US territory.
Whoever told you that was mistaken. Natural born citizen means you must be a citizen of the United States at and by birth. Your parents and their nationality are irrelevant.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/natural_born_citizen
I know exactly what I am talking about. While natural born was never formally defined in the constitution, every single legal president up to and including the Supreme Court has affirmed that it means born in the US, and has nothing to do with the citizenship of parents.
Your baseless interpretation would also mean that at least nine former US presidents were ineligible.