Panama would still be a foreign country. We never “owned” the country.
From Wikipedia: “In 1953, Congress passed legislation to specify the status of Americans born in the Canal Zone—and to exclude non-Americans born there from citizenship. Title 8, Section 1403 of the United States Code[5] grants citizenship to those born in the Canal Zone with at least one parent who is a United States citizen. This differs from the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment which grants citizenship to all born in the United States, regardless of parental nationality.”
Note “at least one parent” clause. This made it easier to be natural born in the Canal Zone than in Kenya, for instance.
Shows how stupid I am.
Back to the history books!!!