In stating Canal Zone I was speaking in general of Panama. I agree with your statement and the location on the hospital, but the facts remains there was a contract(?) with the NAVY to provide health care for the troops and the civilian dependents. It’s because of this contract(?) that they are considering the hospital in the same manner embassies are treated.
“In stating Canal Zone I was speaking in general of Panama. I agree with your statement and the location on the hospital, but the facts remains there was a contract(?) with the NAVY to provide health care for the troops and the civilian dependents. It’s because of this contract(?) that they are considering the hospital in the same manner embassies are treated.”
Are you really trying to tell me that a hospital, owned by a New York railway company, is the same as an American Embassy?
You’re going to have to provide a source for that comment.
Because the Canal Zone was a “no man’s land,” in the words of Representative Sparkman, in 1937 Congress passed a statute, the Act of Aug. 4, 1937 (now codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1403(a)) granting citizenship to “[a]ny person born in the Canal Zone on or after February 26, 1904” who had at least one U.S. citizen parent. This Act made Senator McCain a U.S. citizen before his first birthday. But again, to be a natural born citizen, one must be a citizen at the moment of birth. Since Senator McCain became a citizen in his eleventh month of life, he does not satisfy this criterion, is not a natural born citizen, and thus is not “eligible to the Office of President.”
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in the same manner embassies are treated
Born in a US embassy is NOT being born on US soil, sorry. Being born on US soil is being born on US soil. It is a simple concept. Panama is NOT US SOIL. US had NO JURISDICTION in Colon or Panama City per treaty.