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To: i-node who wrote (607467)4/11/2011 10:33:42 PM
From: longnshort  Respond to of 1579714
 
his mom wasn't old enough check the law at the time



To: i-node who wrote (607467)4/11/2011 10:35:55 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1579714
 
US Law very clearly stipulates: ".If only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16." Barack Obama's father was not a U.S. citizen and Obama's mother was only 18 when Obama was born, which means though she had been a U.S. citizen for 10 years, (or citizen perhaps because of Hawai'i being a territory) the mother fails the test for being so for at least 5 years **prior to** Barack Obama's birth, but *after* age 16. It doesn't matter *after*.

In essence, she was not old enough to qualify her son for automatic U.S. citizenship. At most, there were only 2 years elapsed since his mother turned 16 at the time of Barack Obama's birth when she was 18 in Hawai'i. His mother would have needed to have been 16+5= 21 years old, at the time of Barack Obama's birth for him to have been a natural-born citizen. As aformentioned, she was a young college student at the time and was not. Barack Obama was already 3 years old at that time his mother would have needed to have waited to have him as the only U.S. Cizen parent. Obama instead should have been naturalized, but even then, that would still disqualify him from holding the office.



To: i-node who wrote (607467)4/11/2011 11:17:34 PM
From: Elroy  Respond to of 1579714
 
AFAIK, "Natural Born Citizen" as used in the Constitution means born in the United States or one who is otherwise entitled at birth to be a US citizen.


My understanding is the same. My point is nowadays a child born outside the USA to a married couple (where one is a US citizen parent and one is a non-US citizen parent) is entitled to US citizenship at birth, and the child is thus a natural born citizen. I have no idea what the law was when Obama was born.