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but rather, a person who would not be under a birthright claim by another country.

Many countries will give a person citizenship if their grandparents were born in that country. They can't be president?

2 posted on 01/06/2016 4:01:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Many countries will give a person citizenship if their grandparents were born in that country. They can’t be president?
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Of course they can if they were born to an American parent.

Trump’s mother was Scottish and was naturalized several years before Donald’s birth. Did Great Britain ever remove her British citizenship? Probably not so she had dual nationality once naturalized — American and British. Does that effect Donald’s eligibility for the presidency? Hell no it doesn’t, not in the least.


5 posted on 01/06/2016 4:08:42 PM PST by House Atreides (Cruzin' and Trumpin' or losin'!)
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To: nickcarraway

Italy has a two generation citizenship.


6 posted on 01/06/2016 4:10:47 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: nickcarraway

There is a difference between a birthright claim and “giving someone citizenship”.


11 posted on 01/06/2016 4:14:43 PM PST by sunrise_sunset
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To: nickcarraway

A child born to US citizens in a foreign country or US territory is a natural born citizen. Jus soli is as though the child was born on US soil.

That’s a matter of settled law. A child is NOT a natural born US citizen if he was born to foreign parents abroad. He would be a US natural born citizen if born here regardless of the parent’s citizenship status.

There are some exception like diplomats, whose children born here receive the citizenship of their country, not the US.

Some countries may extend citizenship to any one born on their soil along with whatever citizenship was claimed by their parents at the time of their birth.


18 posted on 01/06/2016 4:19:21 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: nickcarraway
Many countries will give a person citizenship if their grandparents were born in that country. They can't be president?

Born and raised in the US...served honorably in the Armed Forces...worked hard...paid my taxes....never got a nickel in welfare.But my mother was born in Ireland which,under Irish law,means that I was an Irish citizen when born.

19 posted on 01/06/2016 4:19:25 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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Obama is and he never renounced his Brit and Indonesian citizenships, so the law has been broken . But He’s a DEM; double standard and all that.


20 posted on 01/06/2016 4:21:55 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nickcarraway

Aren’t all Jews citizens of Israel?


46 posted on 01/06/2016 4:50:51 PM PST by randita
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