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To: Flavious_Maximus
This article is CRAP and they know it. They admit right in the article itself.

“But U.S. law would still recognize Obama as an American citizen”.

“If Obama had Indonesian citizenship for a period, it may not necessarily have changed his U.S. citizenship status, but it could raise loyalty concerns.”

You don't need to look it up. Another country, or your parents, or ANYONE (not even you) can lose your U.S. citizenship while under the age of majority (21). (and in some cases even after that (Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325 (1939))

18 posted on 08/30/2011 6:08:20 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: faucetman
You don't need to look it up. Another country, or your parents, or ANYONE (not even you) can lose your U.S. citizenship while under the age of majority (21). (and in some cases even after that (Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325 (1939))

In Perkins v. Elg, the court ruled that a person does not automatically lose their naturalized citizenship status merely by moving overseas. But Obama was born here. You can argue that he's a natural born citizen or a native born citizen, but the fact is that he was a citizen at birth. That cannot be taken away from a person, it can only be relinquished voluntarily and intentionally. And according to U.S. law a parent cannot do that for their child.

23 posted on 08/30/2011 6:21:00 AM PDT by SoJoCo
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To: faucetman
Actually, pre-revisions in the immigration laws made under Lyndon Baines Johnson, American law provided that if young ladies of a certain age went abroad to have illegitimate babies, the babies could not be American citizens.

This applied mostly to immigrant families from Ireland and Italy who were sending the girls to convents abroad to have the kids ~ most of whom would be shuffled into Catholic orphanages and then raised to be part of the religious community.

32 posted on 08/30/2011 6:56:59 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: faucetman
Another country, or your parents, or ANYONE (not even you) can lose your U.S. citizenship while under the age of majority (21). (and in some cases even after that (Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325 (1939))

Not according to the US State Department. Or do you know more about the rules than they do? And in Perkins v Elg, the decision was that she did not lose her citizenship.

95 posted on 08/30/2011 10:10:58 AM PDT by sometime lurker
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