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To: andy58-in-nh

Um, hello? Reality?

You need to read up on the laws because you are INCORRECT.

According to the law at the time, his mother was not old enough to transfer automatic citizenship to her child if he was born out of the country.


336 posted on 12/08/2008 9:10:30 AM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: autumnraine
The Immigration and Nationality Act of June 27, 1952, 66 Stat. 163, 235, 8 U.S. Code Section 1401 (b). (Section 301 of the Act).

"Section 301. (a) The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:

"(1) a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;

If you wish to maintain the allegation that Obama was born "out of the country" (for which you offer no proof), then you'd have to consider subsection 7 of the same act:

"(7) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States, who prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years.
 

(b) Any person who is a national and citizen of the United States at birth under paragraph (7) of subsection (a), shall lose his nationality and citizenship unless he shall come to the United States prior to attaining the age of twenty-three years and shall immediately following any such coming be continuously physically present in the United State(s) for at least five years: Provided, That such physical presence follows the attainment of the age of fourteen years and precedes the age of twenty-eight years.

I believe Obama's mother was born on an Army base in in 1942, making her a citizen under the provisions of The Act of March 16, 1956, (70 Stat. 50).  Barack was born in 1961.

So even in this event, how would he not be a citizen within the meaning of the Act?
 

392 posted on 12/08/2008 9:42:02 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Liberty has few friends, many enemies, and no adequate substitute.)
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