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Glad you registered, but you are incorrect.

The anchor baby law wasn’t in effect until 1986.

Please note THE LAW THAT WAS IN EFFECT WHEN OBAMA WAS BORN.

4. December 24, 1952 to November 13, 1986
If at the time of your birth both your parents were U.S. citizens and at least one had a prior residence in the United States, you automatically acquired U.S. citizenship with no conditions for retaining it.

If only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16. There are no conditions placed on retaining this type of citizenship. If your one U.S. citizen parent is your father and you were born outside of marriage, the same rules apply if your father legally legitimated you before your 21st birthday and you were unmarried at the time. If legitimization occurred after November 14, 1986, your father must have established paternity prior to your 18th birthday, either by acknowledgment or by court order, and must have stated in writing that he would support you financially until your 18th birthday.

Stanley Ann Dunham was not old enough to pass on citizenship to Barack because she had a baby with a non-US citizen and was under the age “five years” over the age of 16.

You are incorrect as to what the law was at the time of his birth.

Note that nobody disputes that the father was not a citizen, and nobody disputes that the mother was a citizen, or that she was under 21 years of age.

So if the law was as you state, there would be no question of fact that Obama would not be a citizen, regardless of where he was born.

But in fact, your statement of the law is what applies if Obama was born OUTSIDE the country.

If he was born in Hawaii, and one parent was a citizen, he is a natural born citizen.

That’s why we are having the debate — the question of whether he was born in Hawaii or Kenya is the ONLY critical question, as the other facts are not in dispute.