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."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
That’s not a thing.
You must be born to Citizen parents to ensure sole allegiance to the United States.
(She’s eligible.)
Based on what specifically?
There are only two kinds of citizens defined in the Constitution: natural born and naturalized. Mere citizenship does not satisfy the 'natural born' citizen status of having citizen parents at the time of birth, regardless of location. The 'feckless fackchuck' leaves out these concise words of qualification that are clearly written on the document. Furthermore, only Harris' dad became an 'immigrant' and became a naturalized US citizen. That is called a lie of omission, which is what you can expect to get from 'See? BS'
faithhopecharity wrote:
“
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.
“
Many thanks for the info!
The hell it’s not, Fuzz!
Points for concision, though.
—OGINJ
“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!”
adolescence much?
OMG...the CBS crackpots are HORRIFIED....HORRIFIED.
Where do these people come up with such crap.
Cry me a river. Stop defending slime, CBS, and become a real news organization again.
Fake but accurate.
“Definition of natural born?
Born on US soil to two US citizen parents
Absolutely CORRECT.
“a false narrative claiming the fact Harris’ parents were not born in the U.S. makes her ineligible to hold office”
WRONG!
The fact of where her parents were born has ZERO bearing on her eligibility.
It is whether they were U.S. Citizens at the time of her birth.
That only applies to the “office” of president and vice president.
THANKS OBAMA!
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject [solely] to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.Isn't that really what was intended by the grammatical structure of the sentence? Wasn't "solely" implied?
If a person is in the United States on a student visa and still carries the passport of their home country, aren't they also subject to the jurisdiction of their home country simultaneously with being subject to our laws while here?
For example:
Let's assume that:
-PJ
So if I was born say in France to two US born citizens I would not be eligible to be elected president?
Any argument against a candidate’s eligibility that relies on the existence of a third class of citizen who is neither natural born nor naturalized is so legally dubious that it will never be taken seriously.
Sorry Brian your link in post 18 does not work.
SHE IS A CITIZEN......
SHE IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
LEARN IT
WHO WERE CITIZENS BEFORE CHILD WAS BORN
-PJ
Let me try this again, family mother and father are US BORN citizens, vacationing in France and I am born there
Am I eligible to become president?
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