Obama State Department Following Shariah Law Over U.S. Law in Denying Meriam’s Children Citizenship?
The
Obama Administration’s State Department has been dragging its heels,
refusing to acknowledge that the children of the woman on death row in
Sudan for her Christian faith are U.S. citizens.
Those two young American children – including a newborn infant – are imprisoned with their mother, Meriam Ibrahim. Their human rights are being violated on a daily basis, and the State Department’s response has been abysmal.
It is a basic principle of American law that the child of a U.S. citizen is a U.S. citizen. As long as at least one parent is a citizen (and meets basic residency requirements which don’t appear to be at issue here) when that child is born, under U.S. law, the child is also a citizen.
That is a basic and indisputable fact. It’s not complicated.
It is also now undisputed that Daniel Wani, Meriam’s husband, is a U.S. citizen. Finally, the State Department confirmed this fact on Monday,
stating unequivocally, “We do have Privacy Act waiver for Mr. Wani at
this time, who I can confirm is a U.S. citizen, as has been reported.”
Yet the State Department still refuses to acknowledge that Meriam and Daniel’s children are U.S. citizens.
The only possible complication in establishing the U.S. citizenship of their children – 20-month-old Martin and newborn baby girl Maya – is in proving to the U.S. government that Martin and Maya are, in fact, Daniel Wani’s children.
The U.S. State Department is making onerous and legally unnecessary demands for proof, outside of what is required by U.S. law.
Again the legal analysis isn’t that complicated.
Under U.S. law, there is a presumption that children born during a marriage are in fact the children of both the mother and father. That means that since Meriam and Daniel are married, the children, Martin and Maya both born during their marriage, are the father’s children, and therefore his U.S. citizenship passes to them.
The only conceivable way that the State Department could require further proof in this case would be if it accepted Sudan’s interpretation of Shariah law essentially annulling their previously recognized marriage.
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Those two young American children – including a newborn infant – are imprisoned with their mother, Meriam Ibrahim. Their human rights are being violated on a daily basis, and the State Department’s response has been abysmal.
It is a basic principle of American law that the child of a U.S. citizen is a U.S. citizen. As long as at least one parent is a citizen (and meets basic residency requirements which don’t appear to be at issue here) when that child is born, under U.S. law, the child is also a citizen.
That is a basic and indisputable fact. It’s not complicated.
Yet the State Department still refuses to acknowledge that Meriam and Daniel’s children are U.S. citizens.
The only possible complication in establishing the U.S. citizenship of their children – 20-month-old Martin and newborn baby girl Maya – is in proving to the U.S. government that Martin and Maya are, in fact, Daniel Wani’s children.
The U.S. State Department is making onerous and legally unnecessary demands for proof, outside of what is required by U.S. law.
Again the legal analysis isn’t that complicated.
Under U.S. law, there is a presumption that children born during a marriage are in fact the children of both the mother and father. That means that since Meriam and Daniel are married, the children, Martin and Maya both born during their marriage, are the father’s children, and therefore his U.S. citizenship passes to them.
The only conceivable way that the State Department could require further proof in this case would be if it accepted Sudan’s interpretation of Shariah law essentially annulling their previously recognized marriage.
read the rest here: http://www.redstate.com/
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