CABL Forum - Re: Tea Party!

There is far more evidence that Obama was born in Kenya, then there is that he was born in the United States. It wasn't all that uncommon for parents of foreign born children to get a US birth certificate from Hawaii (illegally) after the fact, for their own reasons. Also, and this is a very important fact, the laws at the time around Obama's birth were not the same as they are today regarding US citizenship of a child with one parent having foreign citizenship.

Back to 1961...
Ann Dunham, a U.S. citizen, and Barack Obama Sr, a citizen of Kenya, married in February 1961 when she determined that she was pregnant. They only divorced a few years later. Now, the rules for Acquisition of U.S. Citizenship By a Child Born Abroad say the following thing about the situation:Birth Abroad to One Citizen and One Alien Parent in Wedlock: A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) INA provided the citizen parent was physically present in the U.S. for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child's birth. (For birth on or after November 14, 1986, a period of five years physical presence, two after the age of fourteen is required. However, for a birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen are required for physical presence in the U.S. to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child).

Now, 1961 obviously fits to the 1952-1986 interval so the last sentence in the parentheses is relevant. Because Ann Dunham was less than 14+5=19 years old, she wouldn't satisfy the requirement if the birth took place in Kenya and Barack Obama Jr wouldn't be born as a U.S. citizen.

Where was he born?

Fine. So the question whether he was born in Hawaii or Kenya is constitutionally important. His black grandmother in Kenya and half-siblings apparently believe that they were physically present during the birth in Kenya. It seems that they have indirectly convinced most of Africa about this point. See e.g. these African newspapers that celebrate a Kenya-born U.S. president.
It is likely that both grandmothers, the black one in Kenya and the white one in Hawaii (now deceased), know the correct answer.

http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-natural-born-us-citizen.html

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Re: Tea Party!