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To: philman_36; jjotto

“What makes naturalization unnecessary?”

Ummm...naturalization is what makes a non-citizen a citizen. If they are born a citizen, then there is no need. And with a few rare exceptions, if you are born in the USA, or born to two US citizens while overseas, you are born a citizen of the USA - a ‘natural born citizen’, per the understanding of the folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution.


53 posted on 06/23/2012 12:16:58 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (A conservative can't please a liberal unless he jumps in front of a bus or off of a cliff)
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To: Mr Rogers
If they are born a citizen, then there is no need.
Well aren't children born of aliens made, or declared, US citizens via naturalization legislation?
58 posted on 06/23/2012 12:38:35 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Mr Rogers

A statutory citizen (child born overseas with US citizen parent(s)) does not have to renounce the country of their birth before a Certificate of Citizenship is issued. A naturalized citizen must first renounce their citizenship of their home country before they are issued a Certificate of Naturalization.

The State Department has issued guidance it is the policy of the US to consider a statutory citizen to be a citizen at birth. Its debatable a statutory citizen, a citizen with dual citizenship after the Certificate of Citizenship is issued, it a Natural born citizen because of divided loyalty.

John McCain never renounced his Panamanian citizenship.


93 posted on 06/24/2012 8:09:51 PM PDT by SvenMagnussen (Gossip is Satin's talk radio.)
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