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Originally posted by stuncrazy
reply to post by Xcalibur254
that's not true in even the slightest way. if you are born in mexico, it doesn't matter if you're parents are american citizens. you're citizenship is in mexico. it'll be easy to get dual citizenship, but you are first a mexican citizen.
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Originally posted by Procession101
Originally posted by stuncrazy
reply to post by Xcalibur254
that's not true in even the slightest way. if you are born in mexico, it doesn't matter if you're parents are american citizens. you're citizenship is in mexico. it'll be easy to get dual citizenship, but you are first a mexican citizen.
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That isn't true, as is in my brothers case he automatically did get Mexican citizenship but he was also born a legal U.S. citizen as well. Being born to American parents automatically does this for you.
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by DarthMuerte
No. Under the laws at that time birthright citizenship would be conferred on a child born abroad with one parent as an alien if the citizen parent had spent a total of five years in the US with two of these years being after the age of 14. Time spent living on US military bases abroad our in the home of a US government employee working abroad also counts. Ann Dunham had lived in the US for 18 years. Last time I checked 18 was greater than five and four of those ears were after the age of 14. So according to the law at the time Ann Dunham was capable of conferring birthright citizenship on Obama if he were born abroad.
Now this proviso did change in 1986. The law now states that the citizen parent must have spent a total of ten years living in the US with five of those years being after the age of 14. However, as this was not a retroactive amendment the original 1952 proviso would have applied to the birth of Barack Obama if he were born abroad..edit on 3/2/2012 by Xcalibur254 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by navy_vet_stg3
The color of his skin has nothing to do with it. He's half-white too, remember? Yes, his financial means do play a role. His mother wasn't exactly a Kennedy or Bush with her pocket book.
Originally posted by HappyBunny
What scholarships? Haven't heard he got any. He's SEALED everything!
You can't prove a negative. Unless his college applications are released, we'll never know. By your analogy, saying "prove you're not a child molester" is just fine.
In Obama's own words, "The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide." Yet, he hides his college records. Personal, what I SUSPECT is that he got scholarships by using his Indonesian passport, and claimed to be a foreign student.
Originally posted by ILikeStars
Originally posted by anon72
Well, he better now. He could be an illegal alien... and Joe knows how to handle that.
illegal alien? But at least one of his parents was an American, correct?
illegal alienUndocumented worker.
I don't buy into this birther arguement, to be honest. Seems like they have been crying wolf for over 4 years now with no meat and potatoes so to speak. At worst the only thing they prove is we haven't had a president in nearly 4 years.
Natural-born-citizen clause of the U.S. Constitution
This requirement was an attempt to allay concerns that foreign aristocrats might immigrate to the new nation and use their wealth and influence to impose a monarchy.
en.wikipedia.org...
Above is the reason for the "natural born citizen clause of the U.S. Constitution" which is what the entire birther arguement is based upon.
Yet, with evidence that 42 of the 43 previous presidents were direct descendants of one King (John Lackland) (foreign aristocrats), and all were related to foreign royalty and nobility, where was the "birther" movement outcry then?
Ironic under current laws in a predominant Christian country Jesus could not legally be president.
edit on 1-3-2012 by ILikeStars because: without meat and potatoes.
Originally posted by HappyBunny
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by manna2
And I have now provided what that last section means twice now. I have even said you can search for that proviso on the internet and you will find lawyers explaining what it means in simple language. They agree with the way I have read it. All the sections left out allow for is the ability for children born to employees of an embassy or in the military to confer birthright citizenship upon their children even if they have never set foot in the United States.
This is why John McCain is a US citizen. He was born in Panama on a US Navy base while his father was stationed there. People tried to say that he's not a citizen either because he wasn't born on US soil. But he is.edit on 3/2/2012 by HappyBunny because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by navy_vet_stg3
reply to post by HappyBunny
It's hard to get any evidence when everything is INTENTIONALLY SEALED! Get it? Look, we all knew Georg Bush was a bad student, snorted coke, etc. How? The records weren't sealed. I'm just wondering why he's had all his college records sealed. And, it does matter. If he committed fraud, we should know. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think he's any worse than Romney, Gengrich or Santorum. Seriously, I don't like any of them. All I care to see is this "transparency" that we were promised.
Originally posted by AGWskeptic
Originally posted by HappyBunny
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by manna2
And I have now provided what that last section means twice now. I have even said you can search for that proviso on the internet and you will find lawyers explaining what it means in simple language. They agree with the way I have read it. All the sections left out allow for is the ability for children born to employees of an embassy or in the military to confer birthright citizenship upon their children even if they have never set foot in the United States.
This is why John McCain is a US citizen. He was born in Panama on a US Navy base while his father was stationed there. People tried to say that he's not a citizen either because he wasn't born on US soil. But he is.edit on 3/2/2012 by HappyBunny because: (no reason given)
U.S. military bases, like embassy's, are considered U.S. soil.
If a child is born in France to Americanparent's they can apply for citizenship, but it isn't automatic.