“””Actually, some women who were born in the United States and never left the country were stripped of their natural born US citizenship.”””
Correct, and this is how that was resolved...
USCIS CURRENTLY clarifies the following federal statute:
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That hereafter a woman, being a native-born citizen. who is believed to have lost her United States citizenship solely by reason of her marriage prior to September 22, 1922, to an alien, and whose marital status with such alien has or shall have terminated or who has resided continuously in the United States since the date of such marriage, shall be deemed to be a citizen of the United States to the same extent as though her marriage to said alien had taken place on or after September 22, 1922.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=a1Aclme7AMkC&lpg=PA173&ots=onepage&q=173&f=false page 173
By CURRENTLY stating the restored U.S. citizenship of such persons as thus:
“The words “shall be deemed to be a citizen of the United States to the same extent as though her marriage to said alien had taken place on or after September 22, 1922”, as they appeared in the 1936 and 1940 statutes, are prospective and restore the status of native-born or natural-born citizen (whichever existed prior to the loss) as of the date citizenship was reacquired.”
http://web.archive.org/web/20130314041654/http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-45077/0-0-0-48575.html
Native-born citizen (born in U.S.) IS currently broken down into two different sub-classifications: native-born citizen OR natural-born citizen. One OR the other.
Direct, current proof that NOT all native-born citizens are natural-born citizens.
Native-born citizen (born in U.S.) IS currently broken down into two different sub-classifications: native-born citizen OR natural-born citizen. One OR the other.
Direct, current proof that NOT all native-born citizens are natural-born citizens.
No, you're reading it wrong, because you're reading it with your birther glasses on.
It isn't "direct, current proof that not all native-born citizens are natural-born citizens."
It's direct, current proof that not all natural-born citizens are native-born citizens.
If you're a native-born citizen, then you're a natural-born citizen.
But there are natural born citizens - and Ted Cruz is a great example - who are not native born citizens.
Native born, generally, refers to persons born in the United States. If you were born in the United States and were born a citizen (i.e., you weren't the child of a foreign ambassador) then you are certainly a natural born citizen.
If you were born a United States citizen in Canada, because one or both of your parents was a US citizen, then you are a natural born citizen for the purposes of the Constitution and Presidential eligibility. But you are not a "native born" citizen.
And the purpose of the restoration statute was to restore to those women the exact kind of citizenship they had had before it was stripped from them.