Just thinking out loud.
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We all know she is an anchor baby. Someone born here is deemed a citizen - a bit embarrassing, but not illegal.
Crucial is birth certificate with American hospital on it. If not, she's not.
Where you are born does not matter. What matters is having two citizen parents at the time of birth.
This (seems to be) incorrect.
(EDIT: It looks like I have not understood. Discussion should continue, as opinions are divided, but the issue does indeed appear to clinched by having two citizen parents (or a father who was a citizen, in which case the mother may well also be a citizen under common law 'coverture') rather than where one is born. Leaving my original comment here, for the discussion, but I think I was incorrect.)
There are potentially several paths to becoming a "natural born citizen". The main one is being born in the United States and not requiring any other naturalization process to become a citizen.
Apparently, there is some uncertainty whether someone born outside of the US jurisdiction but of one or two American citizen parent(s) and is a citizen at birth qualifies as "natural born citizen".
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/natural_born_citizen
In Harris' case, she needs the certificate that she was born on US soil (under US jurisdiction), because neither of her parents was a US citizen when she was born.
(also https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/natural_born_citizen)
There is one path to be a "natural born citizen" and multiple paths to be a "naturalized citizen" and they ARE NOT THE SAME! There is already a very long post discussing this already on here.
Don't be stingy. Share the link!
Are you saying, then, that if John Doe's father and mother are both US citizens legitimately and have resided in the US, but happen to travel to Japan on assignment and then John is born there, that he is NOT a natural born citizen?
Would he have to be naturalized?