Posted on 12/10/2006 8:27:30 PM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
CHICAGO (Dec. 8) - When you're born on an airplane in mid-flight, where do you say you were born?
A seven-pound, eight-ounce girl was born Wednesday night on a Mexicana Airlines flight from Guadalajara, Mexico, to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. An airport spokeswoman says the baby was born nearly an hour before the plane landed.
Luckily for mom and baby, there was an obstetrician on board.
The 42-year-old mother was traveling with her husband and two other children to visit relatives in Milwaukee.
A hospital spokeswoman says mother and daughter are doing fine.
If the 'rents aren't US citizens, I certainly hope that baby isn't considered one. Have to look this one up, haven't run across this before.
If it's not on the ground..it isn't U.S. soil...just airspace. If they try to have this as a trend...good luck to them. How nice that a doc just for situations like this was on-board for this test run.
I wouldn't be so sure. They had crossed the vertical plane of the border and were in our airspace. If you cross the plane its a touchdown.
Gives new meaning to the phrase "mile high club".
LOL.....test run. I think the goal was to be in the states when the baby arrived. It was a fluke that she had the baby mid air. I thought I remember from the days when I was pregnant that you had to have an emergency or Dr.'s approval to fly that close to your due date.
"Upon further investigation, it was determined that all women on the plane were all due within the next 2 days."
Yes after researching it looks like they scored that anchor baby.
#7. I would say so, it does.
:-)
Don't give it a second thought, its a US plane and that will be enough for some socialist Federal judge to grant the kid a Social Security Number and give his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and future childhood friends automatic access to all US social benefits.
What the heck was this woman doing on a plane that late in her pregnancy?
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7 FAM 1116.1-3 Airspace
(TL:CON-64; 11-30-95)
a. Airspace above the land territory and internal waters is held to be part of the United States (Art. 1(1), 1958 Geneva Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, 15 U.S.T. 1606, TIAS 5639). Gordon and Rosenfeld, in Immigration Law and Procedure, Volume 3, Nationality (New York: Matthew Bender, 1986), commenting on the applicability of the 14th Amendment to vessels and planes, states:-----------..The rules applicable to vessels obviously apply equally to airplanes. Thus a child born on a plane in the United States, or flying over its territory, would acquire United States citizenship at birth.b. Cases of persons born on planes in airspace outside the U.S. coastal borders but within the U.S. territorial sea should be submitted to the Department (CA/OCS) for adjudication.
But as Al Gore once said: "There is no controlling legal authority." That is an opinion of a lawyer, not settled case law and not the result of a court decision.
The A.C.L.U. will do everything in their power to make sure that this baby is an anchor baby.
As for citizenship? Well, if the baby was born in US airspace she's eligible for US citizenship. A spokeswoman for US Immigration Services told the Times the parents can file an application and officials will investigate exactly where the aircraft was when the birth occurred.
I am glad SOME people on FR still get sarcasm these days....;)
Yes.....anytime I read the news lately I feel stunned and I am left scratching my head.
"...it isn't U.S. soil...just airspace."
You just watch them claim that airspace counts. Now I know that there is a distance for nautical purposes, but what is the distance for airspace? I can't figure why these people (the Mexicans/Hispanics in general) are so in love with the places they came from but don't want their kids to be born there.... stupidos. If America had treated me as badly, I sure wouldn't want to be a part of it. Thank God that isn't the case.
Yes some of us do : )
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