re: #237 jaunte

I see the birther idiots are out in full force, claiming Harris is not a “natural-born citizen” because her parents were not citizens—for at least five years—at the time of her birth. But Trump fails that test, since his mother became a citizen in 1942 and Trump was born in 1946.

This is completely and utterly confused. With time-phased exceptions, you as a US citizen have to be a resident of the US for five years after age 18 for your child to be a US citizen IF BORN ABROAD. If your child is born in the US, and you’re not a diplomat or resident of occupied US territory, your child is a citizen.

But props to them going right to birtherism, because it just cements the idea that this is all racist bullshit from the start.