Romney's Lawyers To Trump: Obama Is Eligible Even If Born In Kenya Or Paris

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Why the heck are we still talking about this stupid Clinton ploy to attack the President? It failed for Hillary because it isn't true. Get over it. Stop wasting time fighting this stupid argument when Obama is incredibly weak for about a million other issues.

Obama is a citizen. Get over it. Let's actually fight important issues. Don't let him keep you fighting worthless battles.

Right, Obama is a citizen. He's just not a natural born citizen that the constitution specifically calls for in Article 2 Section 1. Trump has made his ineligibility issue go mainstream. You have today the Washington Times asking Obama to release his 'Full' birth records and academic records. That is a first.

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This is absolutely insane. Looks like Mitt is going to suffer the same fate as his father, who blew his presidential nomination chances by switching from support of the Vietnam War to opposition of it; only this time, Mitt will learn that more than an "extreme portion of the population" don't share his view on what makes a natural-born citizen. Lawyers for Romney say even if Obama was born in Kenya or Paris, he would still be eligible to be president because his mother was a American citizen. If Obama was born out of the country , under the law at the time, his mother did not live in the US for 5 years after the age of 14 before he was born. Thus she could not pass on US citizenship to him. Do they even research the law before making these asinine comments? The reason behind this is because Romneys dad George wasn't eligible either when he ran for president.



According to Romney family lawyers it doesn't matter if Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, Kenya, or even Paris: Because his mother was an American (and not even Donald Trump questions that), he is eligible to be President.

Romney to Trump: Obama Doesn’t Need a Birth Certificate - Daniel Freedman - Freed Thinking - Forbes

The applicable law at the time of Obama's birth was the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 and the 14th Amendment. If born in Hawaii, age is irrelevant, if born outside of US Territory then age can be a factor. You are partially correct in that it specifies that for a woman to pass on citizenship to her child, she must have been a citizen herself for at least 10 years, 5 of which occurred after the age of 14. However the same law declares that any child born to a woman out of wedlock is a citizen at birth regardless of her age.

Obama Sr. was already married when he came to the United States, met Dunham, married her, and a child was born. He never divorced his first wife, bigamy is illegal, so there is a case to be made that Obama Sr's marriage to Dunham was invalid and as such she was an unwed mother.



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Romneys lawyers leave out the fact that Obama may have traveled to the US as an Indonesian citizen at age 19.

There has been no legal proof offered that Obama aquired Indonesian citizenship during the couple of years he lived there with his mother and step-father at a young age.

However even if he had, according to the Immigration and Nationalization Act of 1952 (the applicable law at the time), Section 349 - no parent can cause a minor child to loose their United States Citizenship, even if they have that child naturalized in another country. The child would acquire dual-citizenship, but they would not loose their US Citizenship.


So at 19 you may have had Obama Jr. travel to the US, but there is no problem with a United States Citizen traveling to the United States.



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