[livius]

I think he was probably born on US territory, but if he was adopted by an Indonesian that his leftist, Muslim-loving mother married in Indonesia, and he never regularized this, I’d say he’s still a citizen of Indonesia.

[IbJensen]

I’d say he’s still a citizen of Indonesia.

If he's deported do you think his anti-American wife will follow him, or will she stay and keep sucking up the slop at the trough?

[BohDaThone]

I can understand the argument (though it's not in accordance with current Supreme Court law) that birth in the US + American Citizen Mom (if under a certain age), isn't enough to make you a citizen.

BUT, IF you are a citizen at Birth, I can't possibly see how being jerked around the world as a kid, voluntarily or involuntarily, by mom, dad, step dad, kidnappers, or whoever, can possibly de-citizenize you.

Imagine that your kid is 100% American. your spouse decides to split when kid is 5, goes to Flyspeckia, marries a Flyspeckian -- your kid's not an American any more?? She can never be President?? I doubt that you would think so.

[BohDaThone]

I can understand the argument (though it's not in accordance with current Supreme Court law) that birth in the US + American Citizen Mom (if under a certain age), isn't enough to make you a citizen.

BUT, IF you are a citizen at Birth, I can't possibly see how being jerked around the world as a kid, voluntarily or involuntarily, by mom, dad, step dad, kidnappers, or whoever, can possibly de-citizenize you.

Imagine that your kid is 100% American. your spouse decides to split when kid is 5, goes to Flyspeckia, marries a Flyspeckian -- your kid's not an American any more?? She can never be President?? I doubt that you would think so.

Goes WITH THE KID -- if that wasn't understood as implied.

[Dajjal]

I think he was probably born on US territory, but if he was adopted by an Indonesian that his leftist, Muslim-loving mother married in Indonesia, and he never regularized this, I’d say he’s still a citizen of Indonesia.

According to the folks at Texas Darlin', if Lalo Soetoro legally adopted Barry and gave him Indonesian citizenship when he married Stanley, then Barry lost forever-after his status as "a natural-born citizen of the USA."

After returning from Jakarta to Hawaii, BHO could regain citizenship under INS laws, but it would be as a [re-]"naturalized citizen."

Q.E.D., Barry would be ineligible to run for president.