But his mom was a US citizen. No?
Yeah, that’s the whole problem with this argument. If she had picked up and moved back to Kenya with ‘dad’ and gave up her citizenship there (instead of seven years later with the other guy), then this would have be worth discussing. People live with this fantasy and want this to be reality.
Under US law at the time, his mother had to reside in the US for a minimum of 5 years before Obama was born to be automatically a US citizen. She was 19 at his birth.
As your your question, It could be argued that all Obama’s laws, decrees and EOs as well as the regulations passed by his appointees could be found to be unconstitutional and voided if he were determined to be ineligible to be president.
She did not meet the age/resident requirement to endow citizenship to Obama. Citizenship follows the father and he was never a citizen/legal resident.
AND he WAS born in Kenya. His Kenyan birth certificate was proffered as evidence in several eligibility court cases along with sworn affidavits to it’s authenticity.
http://www.wnd.com/2009/09/109113/
It all doesn’t matter, because he’s a progressive socialist. He’s Black, and he’s a Muslim. If you question such a person you are a bigot, racist, etc
Yes, but I think technically, but some obscure law, she was too young at the time to have conveyed citizenship via foreign birth.
But his mom was a US citizen. No?
Yes, she was, but she was only barely 18. She was too young to confer citizenship onto her baby (you had to have lived 4 years after age 15 within the borders of the US). No one cared about that because she was giving up the baby for adoption, which was a sound thing to do for a smart white girl with educational plans with a black baby in 1962.
And then she changed her mind.
But not old enough to confer citizenship upon 0.
No, his mother was an Eypgtian citizen.
See the Policy Manual for conferring citizenship.
”When one parent was a U.S. citizen and the other a foreign national, the U.S. citizen parent must have resided in the U.S. for a total of 10 years prior to birth of the child with FIVE of the years after the age of 14.” Stanley Ann Dunham did not meet requisite status according to blog discovery. One commenter said, “She was not old enough to register Obama’s birth in Hawaii or anywhere else in the U.S. as a Natural Born Citizen as she did not meet the residency requirements! Backing this statement up, another commenter reiterates:” The law specifically outlines the requirements for a CITIZEN mother to confer citizenship to her baby. Ann Dunham was NOT old enough-case closed!”
She was underage, unable to transfer citizenship.
“But his mom was a US citizen. No?”
Yes, but I thought that she wasn’t old enough, at the time of his birth, to meet the age requirement needed if a child is born outside the U.S. It’s been a while since I looked that up.
She had not.
So his citizenship would default to his father's citizenship which was British at the time.