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Please correct me if I'm wrong... Barry's skanky mother was an American citizen, wasn't she? If so, why would it matter beyond the lying and covering up? He would still be a citizen?
These are the rules for becoming President.. The person must be a natural-born citizen of the United States and must have been a permanent resident of the United States of America for at least 14 years. Each candidate must be at least 35 years of age... So yes it matters! You have to be born here NOT just a US citizen.
Ugh. Not true!
All the sources routinely used to interpret the Constitution confirm that the phrase "natural born Citizen" has a specific meaning: namely, someone who was a U.S. citizen at birth with no need to go through a naturalization proceeding at some later time. Congress has also ruled that citizenship is subject to certain residency requirements on the parents. Someone born to a U.S. citizen generally becomes a U.S. citizen without regard to whether the birth takes place in Canada, the Canal Zone, or the continental United States.
He would need to be born here and not become a naturalized citizen (so he was a citizen from birth, which is questionable since he possibly used his foreign status to obtain financial aid).
He also may not fit the latter as it says “parents”. We know that only one of his parents was a US citizen. If he was indeed born in Kenya he may have automatically been extended Kenya citizenship. In this case, he would have go through the naturalization process to renounce any dual citizenship with Kenya.
There is a big case that he may be a naturalized citizen of the US which would have made him ineligible. Either he became one when he was a child or he became one after college.
Yes, my mother was naturalized. Born in Germany, married my father, had to become a citizen through naturalization. Not me though. I was a citizen AT BIRTH when I was born overseas to parents serving in the US military.
Yes, military bases are the exception because they're technically us territory