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Falsehoods about Kamala Harris' citizenship status, racial identity resurface online as she becomes likely Democratic nominee
CBS News ^ | July 23, 2024 | Julia Ingram and Cait Bladt

Posted on 08/03/2024 3:34:52 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Not long after President Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, false claims targeting her began resurfacing on social media.

Many of the falsehoods have followed her for years and focus on her citizenship status, racial identity and political achievements. Here are some of the claims.

False claims that Harris' foreign-born parents make her ineligible to run Shortly after the president's endorsement, a false narrative claiming the fact Harris' parents were not born in the U.S. makes her ineligible to hold office recirculated on social media. Posts pushing the claims received millions of views.

Harris was born in Oakland, California, to Jamaican and Indian immigrants. The fact that her parents are immigrants does not disqualify her from serving as vice president or president.

False claims about Harris' citizenship were a flashpoint last time she was on the ticket. Some have used an op-ed, written by pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman and published in Newsweek in 2020, to promote the argument that the Constitution does not grant citizenship to children of people born outside of the United States. An editor's note later appended to the opinion states: "All of us at Newsweek are horrified that this op-ed gave rise to a wave of vile Birtherism directed at Senator Harris."

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To: Brian Griffin
of parents who were not the subjects of any other sovereignty..

And therein lies the problem.

21 posted on 08/03/2024 4:46:06 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: cgbg
Being charitable to Karamela's claim, interpreting the facts in a way most favorable to her claim, she is at most 1/8 Negro.

Kamala is 88% Caucasian, 12% Negro. Karamela and Racial Dolezal are cut from the same cloth.

22 posted on 08/03/2024 4:47:15 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: South Dakota

The soil means nothing to American citizenship

Only Canada grants citizenship by the soil


23 posted on 08/03/2024 4:47:58 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: teeman8r

A natural born citizen is a citizen naturally...
as there are no alternatives at birth.

The purpose was to insure no foreign king could ever be President.

For Kamala, at birth she was Jamaican per her father and possibly American by her mother either way, there were alternatives... thus, not natural born citizen


24 posted on 08/03/2024 4:55:22 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Here’s the easy way to avoid all future presidential candidate concerns. Choose a candidate born from two citizen parents. And to 100% safe, be born on American soil. Done and done, millions to choose from.


25 posted on 08/03/2024 5:11:45 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

She’s eligible. Can we move on to the issues?


26 posted on 08/03/2024 5:40:49 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: South Dakota

So all Irish and Italian candidates are ineligible.


27 posted on 08/03/2024 5:42:08 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Cruz is Cubamerinadian.

Harris is Indijamerican.

Both were suffused with foreign spice at birth.


28 posted on 08/03/2024 5:46:24 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Romulus

gaslight


29 posted on 08/03/2024 5:46:50 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: sten

Do you subscribe to Mark Levin’s Cruz-enabling definition of U. S. Natural Born Citizen?

It boils down to this.

U.S. NBC = Anyone born anywhere in the universe other than someone born outside the U.S. to two non-U.S. citizen parents.


30 posted on 08/03/2024 5:51:29 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Macho MAGA Man
Requirements to be a Natural Born Citizen.

31 posted on 08/03/2024 5:59:25 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: faithhopecharity

They’ll probably replace her family photos with a picture of the cast og Good Times, sans the father.

“See, she black.”


32 posted on 08/03/2024 6:17:48 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: sten
thus, not natural born citizen

It is a no win argument on FR, we will never have a better definition until the Supremes rule on it and they are likely to get it wrong.

It appears only lawyers can determine what plain English words and sentences mean, as only lawyer Clinton knew what the word "is" really means.

33 posted on 08/03/2024 6:30:18 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: Organic Panic

i wouldn’t be surprised if the DNC Puppetmeisters doubled down on their racist campaigning
and
spray painted Camel-Uh Ebony Black, glossy tint


34 posted on 08/03/2024 7:34:05 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Saves a lot of time reading when you know before starting the articles that SeeBS newsliars Julia Ingram and Cait Bladt are gaslighting you for their Democrat candidate...


35 posted on 08/03/2024 7:40:17 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the United States Constitution establishes the qualifications for the office of President:
A person must be a natural born citizen or a citizen of the United States at the time the Constitution was adopted
A person must be at least 35 years old
A person must have been a resident of the United States for at least 14 years


36 posted on 08/03/2024 8:04:53 PM PDT by bondsman (FOLLOW THE SCIENCE!)
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To: WildHighlander57

Hi
Mama Shyamala Gopalan (Harris) received USA Permanent Reidency 09 April 1968
per
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/foia/Shyamala_Gopalan_Harris.pdf

Daddy Donald Harris shows as having Jamaican and USA citizenship today at wiki. According to websites such as Blackpast.org,
“earned his PhD at UC in 1966 .. he later became a naturalized US citizen” so his USA citizenship dates from 1967 or later

Kamala was born Oakland CA on 29 October 1964.
Thus, not just one both both of her parents were NOT citizens of USA when she was born.


37 posted on 08/03/2024 8:06:50 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Trump’s campaign and RNC need to focus on POLICIES for the future not old news and trivia.


38 posted on 08/03/2024 8:07:17 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: teeman8r

No epidural, vaginal birth, white parents with video evidence of the copulation that resulted in the original pregnancy, narrated by Tucker Carlson.

Read the constitution!


39 posted on 08/03/2024 8:14:10 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: P-Marlowe

I, for one, bow to our Scottish overlords.


40 posted on 08/03/2024 8:17:46 PM PDT by Fuzz
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