• Phineaz@feddit.org
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      3 months ago

      Now, don’t be hasty, no-one could run then. All of their ancestors had ancestors born before 1776 and therefore could not have been US-citizens.

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    Also to be the vice president a person needs to meet the same citizenship requirements as president. Republicans would love to have a democratic vice president forced out of office for improper eligibility. The “dems want to replace Americans with immigrants” headlines would write themselves.

    Waiting until now just slamming the racism button.

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      Exactly. Last paragraph rom the article:

      Former U.S. President Donald Trump has also long amplified such “birther” conspiracy theories against Obama and even against Harris when she ran for the vice presidential seat in 2020.

      He already tried this racist bullshit with Kamala 4 years ago. She’s been vetted and verified.

      Asked and answered Donald, you weird rapey racist fuck.

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    The number of people that don’t know this is… Distressing.

    This was literally middle-school shit for me.

    If you were either born in the US–which (usually) makes you a citizen by birthright–or are born to parents that are citizens, you are almost always eligible. (There are some weird edge cases about citizenship, but they’re extremely rare.)

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      Yeah it was to most people I think.

      But since anti-intellectualism has gotten so popular, people have this idea that learning is stupid and makes you uncool. So they hate school and reject information.

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      What I learned in school was natural born means born in the USA.

      It wasn’t until Cheney that I learned that it also meant parents of citizens or born on a US Base.

      Just goes to show that school systems are janky when it comes to history.

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        A US base is US territory. Same as an embassy or consulate. If you’re born there, it’s the same as being born in Kansas.

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        I think that being born to US citizens, on or off a US base, is usually sufficient to be a US citizen, but it depends on residency. It gets a little tricky at the margins, and it’s the sort of thing that you’d need to take up with the US State Dept.

        I know that for people that have dual-citizen parents, but have never lived in the US, it can get challenging.

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    If Project 2025 had its way, she wouldn’t have been a citizen even if she was born here from immigrant parents. Vote to keep the orange bastard out of the White House.

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      Trump already floated the idea of revoking birthright citizenship during his administration, even going so far as to suggest that we should remove people’s citizenship retroactively.

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        Funny thing is that for some of us, our family has been on US soil well before the US was a thing, let alone when trumps family got here.