Leo Donofrio is truly defending our
nation as being one based on laws ..
and is describing how and why the
framers wrote the “natural born”
citizenship clauses.
I know it doesn’t sound “fair” .. as
we have come to use that word, but
as he describes it: it is constitutional.
He was born in Panama .. tho, I thought
an American base was always considered
American territory. Didn’t know BHO and
McCain recently engineered that.
In so many words, he says our constitution
is being disassembled .. piece by piece,
and our country is slowly going the way
of Europe.
And you just know he’s right.
The problem with the USA becomming Sweeden is that Europe will cease to exist.
It's not. But the confusion arises, perhaps, because a child born there, of an American citizen (which most military members are), even if the other parent is not, will in general be an American citizen. Only in cases where the Citizen parent doesn't meet the residency requirements, (time in service regardless of where served counts as US residency). Even more often *both* parents will be US Citizens, even if one is "only" naturalized", and in such cases the child has US Citizenship at birth. But the same would be true if the parents were living off post/base/station and the child was born in a foreign hospital (as happens with personnel assigned to embassies, attaches and Marine guards).