reply to post by bjax9er
Here's the deal about Islam, when his mother "married" his "father", under Muslim law, she became a citizen of whatever Muslim country he was
from. Then she became a citizen of Indonesia by marriage to Lelo Soetoro. That means, under Muslim law, he is Kenyan.
His "father" was born as a British subject, because Kenya was a British territory. He never gave up his citizenship in Kenya, so according to Kenyan
law, Barack Jr. is Kenyan, and a British subject and a Muslim. His mother, by virtue of giving up her rights as an American citizen, means then that
Barack Jr. is not an American citizen.
And since Barack Jr. grew up in Indonesia, another Muslim country, he was a citizen of Indonesia. He was never formally adopted by his grandparents
and he never legally had his name changed back to Obama, because he still was called Soetoro until he went back to Hawaii. Just because he lived with
his grandparents in Hawaii does not mean he would become a citizen, unless they formally adopted him.
But the Constitution states that one must be natural-born citizens, as some of the presidents were born to foreign parents, such as Andrew Jackson,
whose mother was from Scotland. But his mother did not bounce around Europe after he was born. That's the whole issue, until a child is 18 years-old,
that child is a citizen of the country of their parents. That's why so many Mexican illegals are here, to have babies born on American soil so they
become American. But in Vietnam, those babies born of American soldiers were not American under American law or Vietnamese law either.
Did she have him in Hawaii? That's up for debate still, but for it to be true,then there needs to be a Kenyan birth certificate, but if there is,
then that makes it a British document.
This is the sticky part, since natural born means you were either born on American soil or your mother was born here, then he is natural born in that
regard because we know she was born here. But on the other hand, if her American citizenship rights were given up through marriage to Obama Sr., then
she became a citizen of Kenya. So no matter how you want to perceive that, she was the citizen of another country at his birth.
Andrew Jackson's mother became a citizen of the United States, and gave away her rights as a British subject. but then again, she was born prior to
the Revolution, but she did not go back to Scotland and neither did she pledge loyalty to the British. She was no longer a British subject after the
Revolution, so Andrew therefore as a first generation American born on American soil, was American at birth.
But immigration laws changed so much before Obama Jr. was born.
1902
1903 Immigration law was consolidated. Polygamists and political radicals were added to the exclusion list.
Obama Sr. was a polygamist, he was married to another woman at the time he "married" Stanley Dunham, so legally they could not be married. As
polygamy was illegal, it nullified his marriage to her only in the United States, but not Kenya. As they were legally recognized at married in Kenya,
it then made her a citizen of Kenya.
In 1965, the law changed to this
1965 The national origins quota system was abolished. But still maintained was the principle of numerical
restriction by establishing 170,000 Hemispheric and 20,000 per country ceilings and a seven-category preference system (favoring close relatives of
U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens, those with needed occupational skills, and refugees) for the Eastern Hemisphere and a separate 120,000
ceiling for the Western Hemisphere.
In 1986 it changed to this
1986 The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was a comprehensive reform effort. It (1) legalized aliens who had
resided in the United States in an unlawful status since January 1, 1982, (2) established sanctions prohibiting employers from hiring, recruiting, ar
referring for a fee aliens known to be unauthorized to work in the United States, (3) created a new classification of temporary agricultural worker
and provided for the legalization of certain such workers; and (4) established a visa waiver pilot program allowing the admission of certain
nonimmigrants without visas. Separate legislation stipulated that the status of immigrants whose status was based on a marriage be conditional for two
years, and that they must apply for permanent status within 90 days after their second year anniversary.
So, was he natural born? That's the definition we need to have made clear. It did limit Asians from claiming citizenship. But clearly, his birth
does present legal challenges. Was he born in Hawaii or Seattle? Or was he born in Kenya? He was not a citizen at birth, that's the point, he was the
citizen of what country his mother was, and according to Kenyan law, she was a Kenyan citizen because she was "married" according to Muslim custom
and law. But she was not legally married in the eyes of United States law, therefore his father's nationality does not count in that regard. So we
have to challenge Kenyan law.
Had he been formally adopted by his grandparents anyway?