OK.
Therefore MEANS granted AT BIRTH means by virtue of Meeting requirements of Parent being citizen AND statute.
That’s my answer.
RE: Therefore MEANS granted AT BIRTH means by virtue of Meeting requirements of Parent being citizen AND statute.
The statute part for me, is conditional. It is like telling a Muslim-American citizen that you won’t lose your citizenship IF you don’t go about supporting, aiding and abetting terrorists.
So, suppose we have a law ( as Ted Cruz would want ) that says, any American who supports, aid, abets, joins terrorists, he or she LOSES American citizenship.
Now Suppose two different America-Muslim women, one named Fatima and the other Aisha became pregnant after the law was passed.
Fatima became like the San Bernardino terrorist bride and was discovered to be aiding and abetting ISIS. She loses her citizenship while visiting Pakistan. The child is born in Pakistan. What is the citizenship of the child?
Aisha also goes to Pakistan and gives birth to her child but is a law abiding American Citizen. After his birth, she comes back to the USA, What is the citizenship of her child?.
It looks like deciding on the citizenship of Aisha’s child is simple. He is American like his mother.
But what is the determinative factor of his citizenship? statute or His mother’s citizenship?
And is the child considered natural born?