Immigrants can run for president

Currently there’s a natural born clause preventing non naturalized US citizens from running for president. This is an old outdated clause that was intended to prevent foreign influence. However, no one embodies the American dream more than immigrants who’ve come to this country because they want a better life for their family. They love America more than most, like my father, who came from Poland when he was 8, legally. However, someone like him can never run for president, nor can other true patriots like Elon Musk, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and many many more who have come to this country when they were young to have a better life.

As far as the details go, they should be an American citizen for at least 25 years and follow the other rules for being able to run for president. There is little risk with this amendment, since the people of this country still have to vote for president, and knowing someone could possibly have foreign influences on our government or show any sign of being un-American during their life here, people would surely not vote for them.

I know more immigrants who’ve come to this country who are more patriotic than most who were born and grew up here and I would even go as far to say, have even less foreign influence.

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The founders knew that those born in other countries would always be biased by their country. We don’t know better than the founders did. Look at Obama, who hid his birth certificate and finally showed a fake one from Hawaii. Look at what he did to this country because he hated it. Natural born means one parent had to be a US citizen as well as being born in the US. I am against changing this requirement.