(February 16, 2016 at 10:24 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote:I didn't say that the person isn't a citizen. I said that he wasn't a natural born citizen. This idea had very deep historical roots. During Spanish times pregnant Spanish women went back to Spain to have their babies if they were able so that the children would be considered fully Spanish.(February 16, 2016 at 10:17 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Theorectically a person is a natural born citizen if his parents are citizens and if he was born on US territory. So anchor babies are not natural born citizens.
I know that isn't what I was taught in school a few decades ago, so has it all changed? I cannot honestly justify denying citizenship to one who is born, raised and educated in New York, just because his parents never bothered to naturalize.
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