Sen Ted Cruz... Scarry

[Thorne]

Since she was 18 at the time, Obama's mother could not possibly have met the requirement to be resident in the US for five years after the age of 14.

By that logic, any woman giving birth before the age of 19 could not meet the requirements, even if they'd never left the country. There would have to be more to it than that.

[js207]

By that logic, any woman giving birth before the age of 19 could not meet the requirements, even if they'd never left the country. There would have to be more to it than that.

If they had never left the country, they'd still be in the US so the child would have citizenship from place of birth. If the mother grew up in the US but left before reaching the age of 19, the child would indeed not have US citizenship - like Winston Churchill, as it happens, whose mother was born in New York. (He was the first to be awarded honorary US citizenship, in 1963, but didn't inherit it from his American mother.)