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 problem being that federal law does not recognize a difference between citizen at birth and natural born U.S. citizen. By law the two are synonymous. The law recognizes two classes of citizen; natural born citizen or naturalized citizen. There is no third category.
See my #60 but I did not undercut McCain’s argument, he was born of US parents.
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SZ