“””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.”””
No. Read the law, Jeff, this time much more carefully:
“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 citizens Jeff. If you still don’t get that, read the quoted law above the first link again.
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, WHICHEVER status existed before the loss of citizenship.
Direct, current proof that NOT all NATIVE-born citizens are natural-born citizens.
Yes, I've read it, Rides. Believe me, I've read it very carefully.
And there is absolutely nothing in those laws that in any way says that there exists such a thing as a native born citizen that isn't also a natural born citizen.
I think you need to read it carefully again.