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Somewhat tangentially, children born in California to single ... or married ... Mexican citizens in this country illegally, are counted as "Natural Born American Citizens," are they not?
They are native born citizens, not natural born citizens.
They are citizens AT birth, not citizens BY birth.
They attained citizenship because our laws deem persons born in the U.S. to be U.S. citizens.

A natural born citizenship attains citizenship by descent from his American parents, regardless of his birthplace.

30 posted on 12/06/2008 3:06:57 PM PST by fightinJAG (Natural born citizen, citizen, naturalized citizen: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2143728/p)

31 posted on 12/06/2008 3:07:44 PM PST by fightinJAG (Natural born citizen, citizen, naturalized citizen: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2143728/p)