There's a Birther in New Jersey, Owes Me a Condo!
Be careful what you wager. There's a Birther in New Jersey who bet me his house (turns out it's a condo,) that jus soli doesn't apply to the children of illegal immigrants. I probably won't be able to (and wouldn't want to) collect on the bet as stated, as it would involve putting a first cousin once removed (his wife) out of her home, and that
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I've had a bunch of sparring with birthers, there's not really any kind of winning.
BUT having said that, if you really want to show him the birthright statutes, you're looking for 8 U.S.C. s 1401.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1401.html
That makes it pretty clear. If you're born on US soil, you're a citizen. If your parents are both citizens and one is a resident, citizen. As well as all the other rules for one parent or the other being a citizen and being born not on US soil. For what it's worth, both of the children he's talking about, the ones born to citizens not in the US and the ones born to non-citizens in the us would meet the natural born requirement for president.
This is the really annoying part of the whole thing: even IF Obama was born in Kenya (which he assuredly wasn't), he would STILL be eligible to be president because his mother is a citizen and had lived in the US for more than one year continuously prior to his birth.
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http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RL30527.pdf
This is an official legislative primer prepared by the Congressional Research Service. On page 7 it states:
"Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution specifies that, to be President or Vice President, a person must be a natural-born citizen of the United States, at least 35 years of age, and a resident of the United States for at least 14 years.1 Most constitutional scholars interpret this language as including citizens born outside the United States to parents who are U.S. citizens under the “natural born” requirement.2"
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8^)
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