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To: Lurkinanloomin

Her parents were both legal residents of the USA under American jurisdiction and liable to US laws and regulations.

Kamala Harris was born on American soil to legal residents who were under American jurisdiction.

They were residents and subject to USA laws. As per the 14th amendment she was born an American citizen. Remember, it was Wong Kim Ark, in 1898, that considered the question directly, and expressly concluded that the children of foreign citizens (there, citizens of China) were American citizens. And though the parents there were permanent residents—albeit ones who returned to China when Wong Kim Ark was 17—rather than students, the logic of the case would apply to people living here on student visas, as well

the minimum criteria set forth by the Constitution are solely that the person be “a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution,” “have attained to the Age of thirty five Years,” and have “been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”

I wouldn’t vote for Kamala Harris for Vice-President (or for President); but she is indubitably constitutionally eligible to the office.


74 posted on 08/16/2020 11:58:44 PM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Cronos

Anyone born with more than one nationality is not naturally an American.
Natural born citizens are naturally citizens because they have one nationality and could not be anything else.


79 posted on 08/17/2020 6:38:30 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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