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To: Sherman Logan

“There are only two categories of US citizens, natural-born and naturalized.”

Perkins v Elg(1939) seems to support your argument.

“If he was born elsewhere, the issue gets complicated, but he may still be eligible.”

I can’t see how. His mother wasn’t old enough under the law in effect in 1961. Barry Obama has probably never been a US citizen, and is likely subject to deportation.


130 posted on 12/07/2008 1:02:15 PM PST by devere
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To: devere
His mother wasn’t old enough under the law in effect in 1961.

I'm not an attorney, but this seems unlikely to me. I seriously doubt the intent of the law was to produce a citizenship trap for children of young married American women.

I do know the present version of the law requires the American parent to have lived in the USA for 2 of the previous 5 years.

139 posted on 12/07/2008 1:08:46 PM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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