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To: bushpilot1; RummyChick
“Do you believe the children of aliens or an alien should be a citizen if born in the US?”

I don't accept your framing of the question.

Under our Constitution, SCOTUS gets to make that call, whether I like it or not (belief has nothing to do with settled SCOTUS rulings, IMO) and they made that call in WKA...deciding that WKA’s parents WERE subject to the jurisdiction of the US by being domiciled here at the time of WKA’s birth and therefore WKA was a 14A citizen at birth.

I do not BELIEVE this applies to Obama...meaning that I believe that if the facts of Obama’s alleged birth came before SCOTUS, Obama would NOT be a 14A citizen because his father was a non-immigrant foreign exchange student.

I reserve the caveat that I BELIEVE that SCOTUS would grant Obama a mulligan and allow him to be NBC at birth if Obama argued that his mother was single at his birth and only had unitary US citizenship due to the bigamy of his father.

79 posted on 02/04/2012 7:17:35 PM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp

Superbirther it is your opinion it’s ok the children of aliens can be citizens if born in the US.

superbirther stated the WKA decision was a correct decision.

superbirther this decision opened the doors for millions anchor babies.

superbirther wants to hide behind the subject to jurisdiction definiton in the WKA decision.

Its ok for superbirther the children of aliens can be citizens as long as they are living here...lol

superbirther let me remind you..a nation cannot survive unless its citizens are born from citizens.

The clock is ticking.


82 posted on 02/04/2012 7:39:30 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: Seizethecarp
"I do not BELIEVE this applies to Obama...meaning that I believe that if the facts of Obama’s alleged birth came before SCOTUS, Obama would NOT be a 14A citizen because his father was a non-immigrant foreign exchange student."

Thank you! THIS is the argument they should have made - that WKA didn't apply to Obama's situation. It may or may not have won, but it is a logical and supportable argument.

What does NOT work is for birthers to ignore WKA.

85 posted on 02/04/2012 8:03:14 PM PST by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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