Well, you see, IF a person is a natural born citizen then no other country should have jurisdiction over said citizen as to a thing such as custody.
The ex-husband was never a US citizen, apparently is not a citizen of Monaco, but does reside there.
So, a judge in Monaco can decide to award custody of two US children, who are not dual citizens of Monaco, to the father who also does not hold Monaco citizenship? And a US judge upholds the ruling? Then sends the children off to Monaco. Two minor citizens of the US, born here to a US citizen, are just packed off like that!
So, since EVERYONE acknowledges that the restriction of the requirement to be a natural-born Citizen was inserted in the Constitution as a way to guard against foreign governments intrigue, it would seem that if ONE non-US citizen parent can, through a foreign court, obtain custody away from his US citizen wife, and get custody of his US citizen children, then such a parental configuration leaves a child vulnerable to the mercies OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT, and the children’s own government, United States of America, will not intervene or interfere. No, far from interfering, a US court basically deports those children.
In the post I did, I asked what would have happened had obama’s daddy pulled such a stunt - would obama have been able to come on back to the US and be declared a natural-born Citizen?
What would have happened if the father was a U.S. citizen residing in Monico? Would the Monico court have acted in the same way?
AH - I must correct myself it seems. It was not a judge in Monaco, but rather a California judge ( so pretty much a foreign judge IMO)who made the initial ruling. I had heard the thing wrong, and later searched out older accounts which spell it out in better detail. However, the thing is not dissimilar in the sense that a judge ruled to send US citizen children out of their home country, to live with a foreign citizen father in a country where none of them are citizens.
The practice of minor US citizens being sent out of the county in that way is profoundly disturbing. It isn’t as though their mother is dead, or in jail or a broke-ass who mistreats the kids. AND it speaks to the vulnerability of children in these situations where one parent is non-US citizen.