Born in American Samoa. That’s McCain-level of “native born.”
...But she’s smashing the Drudge straw poll with 37%. Twice Lieawatha’s draw—her nearest competitor. Booker is last. It’s a marvel he’s a Senator.
Correct. Gabbard was born on April 12, 1981, in Leloaloa, Maoputasi County, on American Samoa’s main island of Tutuila.
so we have ANOTHER pick of the globalist elite that is not an Article II, Section 1, clause 5 Natural Born Citizen.
Because of Obama’s 8 years, we cannot get the SCOTUS to adjudicate this Article III matter for the first time in US history.
We need to figure out how to overcome this deficiency.
Totally and regularly pissing off the Democrat base.
Of course, unlike McCain, she wouldn’t have the media fawning all over her.
Quite the opposite.
Tuaua v. United States
According to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the people born in American Samoa – including those born on Swains Island – are “nationals but not citizens of the United States at birth”. If a child is born on any of these islands to any U.S. citizen, then that child is considered a national and a citizen of the United States at birth. In an amicus curiae brief filed in federal court, Samoan Congressman Faleomavaega supported the legal interpretation that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not extend birthright citizenship to United States nationals born in unincorporated territories.
All U.S. nationals have statutory rights to reside in the United States (i.e., the 50 states and Puerto Rico), and may apply for citizenship by naturalization after three months of residency by passing a test in English and civics, and by taking an oath of allegiance to the United States. However, the INA makes clear that any “national but not a citizen of the United States” who at any time has been convicted of any aggravated felony, whether the aggravated felony was committed inside or outside the United States, is “debarred from becoming a citizen of the United States”
Which other nation do you believe that she would have divided loyalty towards?