The hardcore racists in the Russia-publican Party are at it again. They are claiming that potential 2020 Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris of California is not a “Natural-born Citizen.” The logic is worthy of a billion Jean Luc Picard facepalms.
I won’t link to the original Teahadist screed. Crooks and Liars had a blog entry that quoted directly from it:
”.. Harris has failed to answer questions about her parents’ citizenship at the time of her birth in 1964 in Oakland, CA. Her Wikipedia page says that her mother immigrated from India in 1960 and her father from Jamaica a year later. If accurate, neither could have resided in the United States for the requisite five years to apply for U.S. citizenship prior to Kamala’s birth.
Harris’s Wikipedia biography additionally states that she grew up in Canada from age 7 through high-school graduation, something she has not publicized on her Senate website.
Harris’s Senate office has not responded to queries from a constituent, Gary Wilmott, who first contacted her in December 2017 regarding her rumored plans to seek the presidency and whether or not her parents ever became U.S. citizens and if so, when.”
Seeing that she was BORN in Oakland, she is eligible to run or serve as a VP nominee. Period.
Mind you these fuckwits seemingly had no problem with Mr Haney look-alike Calgary Cruz, who wasn’t even born in this country, or John McCain, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone.
A different RWNJ, Charles F. Kirchner, went all in with the “expertise” worthy of a Constitutional lecturer at Drumpf University’s Michael Cohen School of Law:
”Given Kamala Harris’s year of birth, and her parents emigration years, she was born in the USA to two foreign nationals and thus inherited their respective birth nation’s citizenship when she was born, in addition to being a basic Citizen by being born in the USA to aliens legally domiciled here. Thus Senator Kamala Harris was born with citizenship and required allegiance at birth to three countries. This is hardly what the founders and framers intended when they selected the “natural born Citizen” requirement for the person who would in the future be permitted to be the President and Commander in Chief of our military, once the founding generation was gone.
As per ‘Principles of Natural Law‘ in place at the time of the founding of our country and when the founding documents including the U.S. Constitution were written, a ‘natural born Citizen’ is one born in the country to parents who are both Citizens (born Citizens or naturalized Citizens) of that country when their child is born in the country. See ‘The Three Legged Stool Test‘ for a graphic presentation of this constitutional requirement as to who can be President and Commander in Chief or our military. See the Euler Diagram shown to the right for a logic diagram presentation of this constitutional requirement”
My anger is seething with the heat of 10,000 suns as racists are once again making a Democratic person of color jump through non-existent hoops just because.