Ignorant fools need to be banned from publishing anything.
From his bio:
Birthplace: Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone
The Canal Zone was a US possession and therefore, any persons born there are US citizens.
I’m not sure about non-US citizens giving birth while there, but I do know for a fact that US citizens had been having children there for decades and still are as there are many still working on the Canal. All it takes now since the Canal Zone was dissolved is a visit to the US Consulate to get the right paperwork.
My sister was born in the Canal Zone and she’s a US citizen. And I’ve never had any issue with my clearance updates because of this.
This whole thing about McCain’s citizenship is a NON-ISSUE.
He’s a true ZONIAN
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If you are born in France (in a French hospital) and your parents are US citizens, you are a US citizen at birth. What's the difference between that and what you described in Panama.
I’m not sure about non-US citizens giving birth while there...
You just undercut McCain's entire natural-born argument. If every single child born there (regardless of thier parent's citizenship) isn't automaticly an American citizen, then nobody born there is a natrual born citizen.
The child born in France above would be a citizen at birth.
Had that child been born in Virginia insetead of France, they would not only be a citizen at birth, but also a natural-born citizen at birth.
The Canal Zone was not considered U.S. territory for the purpose of establishing U.S. citizenship. If a Panamanian gave birth within the Canal Zone they were not considered a U.S. citizen regardless of the 14th Amendment. If a U.S. citizen gave birth within the Zone then their child was a natural born U.S. citizen. But the same would have been true if they had given birth in Guatamala or any foreign country as well, citizenship status was decided by the citizenship of the parent.