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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

This is probably a joke, but I find it important to speak on the matter.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States says:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

So unless you can definitively prove that she was born outside the United States, she's an American citizen. Furthermore, the United States allows dual citizenship, so she could theoretically be both a citizen of the United States and Jamaica, however, India doesn't allow dual citizenship, which means she has to renounce her American citizenship first, which she hasn't done.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Please, you are going to spoil their rant.

In any case, what makes you think this is a joke? It seems more like a lie to me.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

The fact that they talk about the Constitutions of India and Jamaica while ignoring that of the United States, and that they seemingly don't know that 1. dual citizenship is a thing and 2. her US citizenship takes precedent. Anyone with a 6th grade education would see right through it.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

How does US citizenship "take precedent?" What does that even mean?

[–]Madseanix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Born on US soil = American citizen. Basic civics.

[–]RasputinsDong 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It means that as long as were in America who gives 2 shits what the Indian and Jamaican constitutions say. Harris is a complete POS, but unfortunately she is an American citizen, by virtue of being born on our soil. You dont need to have US citizen parents to be considered a US citizen.

[–]hennaojichan 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California and that makes her a US citizen, no matter her parents' nationalities.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I blame the schools.

Harris was born Oct. 20, 1964. At the time of her birth, her father Donald Jasper Harris, was a citizen of Jamaica, and her mother Gopalan Shyamala, was a citizen of India. Therefore, the laws of both Jamaica and India are clear: Kamala Harris was either a citizen of Jamaica, pursuant to Section 3C(b) of the Constitution of Jamaica, or a citizen of India, pursuant to Part II, Sec. 5 of the Constitution of India.

[–]hennaojichan 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

If you are born in the US and your parents are not US citizens, you must choose when you are 20 or 21, I forget. In her case she could choose to be Indian, her mother's nationality, Jamaican, her father's nationality, or the US because she was born there.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How wonderfully imaginative.