I can see where that would confuse you. The law I'm referring to is the one I referenced earlier - 8 U.S. Code § 1401. While that falls under the broad naturalization law umbrella of 8 U.S. Code Part I, the purpose of that particular section is to identify those who acquire their citizenship at birth and don't need to be naturalized, AKA natural-born citizens.
A naturalization law that "identifies" people who don't need naturalization.
Lightbulb go on?
He's too young. American law doesn't require a child to choose his citizenship till he reaches the age of maturity.
More accurately he's already a citizen. When he reaches adulthood he can decide whether to give it up.
A naturalization law that prevents naturalization. Got it. :)
Let me toss this out here just to see what you think of it.
The fourteenth amendment of the constitution, in the declaration that 'all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside,' contemplates two sources of citizenship, and two only,—birth and naturalization. Citizenship by naturalization can only be acquired by naturalization under the authority and in the forms of law. But citizenship by birth is established by the mere fact of birth under the circumstances defined in the constitution. Every person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization. A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized, either by treaty, as in the case of the annexation of foreign territory, or by authority of congress, exercised either by declaring certain classes of persons to be citizens, as in the enactments conferring citizenship upon foreign-born children of citizens, or by n abling foreigners individually to become citizens by proceedings in the judicial tribunals, as in the ordinary provisions of the naturalization acts.