[9YearLurker]

No, the point is that supposedly at the time of his birth his American mother was too young to transmit US citizenship unless he was born on US soil. If that’s so and if he were proven to have been born in Kenya, then short of otherwise applying for and becoming a US citizen he still wouldn’t be one and he wouldn’t have been eligible for the US Senate-because citizenship was required.

I’m only going on what I’ve read, however, and can’t vouch for whether being born to an unwed 17yo American abroad would have indeed deprived him of automatic US citizenship.

[Danae]

You have a good point there!

[jcsjcm]

I’m only going on what I’ve read, however, and can’t vouch for whether being born to an unwed 17yo American abroad would have indeed deprived him of automatic US citizenship.

It would deprive him of his citizenship since at that time she would have to have lived in the United States for 5 years after the age of 14. She wasn't 19 when she had him, so he is disqualified.