[patlin]

audio is at the link: http://constitutionallyspeaking.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/mark-r-levin-dual-citizenship-is-citizenship-by-statute-not-14th-amendment-citizenship/

[DallasDeb]

I wonder if any recalls in all the birth certificate debates whether Kenya recognizes Obama as a citizen. If it does, then he shouldn’t be president.

[La Lydia]

If citizenship IS designated by statute, then we should be able to take care of the birthright citizenship question statutorily. That is basically what the 1898 birthright citizenship Supreme Court ruling says: that in the absence of a Congressional statute, all born on American soil are citizens. Congress could have fixed this more than 100 years ago, and certainly within the past 20 years or so when the problem became so evident.

[Vendome]

I doubt he knows that Jindals parents were not yet Naturalized when he was born.

[CodeToad]

“Natural born citizen” is a citizen at birth, someone needing to take no additional steps of any kind to be a citizen. Why is that so hard to comprehend? People are twisting the laws and themselves into pretzels trying to define “natural” as anything but what it actually means.

United States Code, Title 8, Section 1401 states:

“The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:

(a) a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;”

It doesn’t say both parents must be US citizen. It says “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”. A mother that is a US citizen giving birth in the US is, indeed, subject to the jurisdiction thereof and so is the child. It doesn’t matter the father’s nationality. He could be a space alien for all anyone cares.

[wintertime]

Now that Trump has put his toe in the water and told Levin that he won't get burned, **NOW** Levin speaks up.

Well....It's better late than never,...but...I am really disgusted with these so-called conservative bobble-head yappers. Collectively they have the gonads the size of a dust mite.

Levin the constitutional expert...yeah right! ( eye roll). However....To give Levin some credit. He was at least silent. He didn't insult the birthers like Coulter, Beck, and Medved. Unlike the later three, in time, I'll forgive him( and Rush, too).

[K-Stater]

Let me explain something to you. In terms of dual citizenship, that is done statutorily, you understand? In other words, Congress determines, us, the nature of dual citizenship, what qualifies for dual citizenship and so forth...

Which statute does that?

[longtermmemmory]

Does anyone remember that dual citizenship was not allowed until Ronald Reagan’s years? (as in claiming dual status)

also

Ronald Reagan is the president who allowed US citizens, who were legally allowed by the foreign country, to vote in a foreign country. (some even allow it due to mere residency on some ballot initiatives)