In Reply to: The mother is a Kenyan national posted by DSCBruin on July 09, 2025 at 21:03:25
From the story:
The legal battle over Thomas's citizenship has raged for years. While his lawyers argued he's a citizen under the 14th Amendment as the son of a U.S. citizen born on a US military base, a 2015 appeals court found otherwise. The court ruled that military bases abroad aren't U.S. territory, and Thomas's father hadn't met the required 10-year U.S. residency to confer citizenship—he'd only been in the country nine years at the time of Thomas's birth.
The law is:
A child born on or after November 14, 1986 will obtain citizenship if:The U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States or its territories for five years before the child’s birth. At least two of these years must be after age 14.
A child born between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986 will obtain citizenship if:
The U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States or its territories for 10 years before the child’s birth. At least five of these years must be after age 14.
So he's screwed not only because his father lived in the US one year short of the 10 year requirement, but presumably also because he was born in 1986 instead of 1987 (or past Nov 14th 1986).
So that's where the absence of good will and the racist impulses come into play. Cruelty, after all, is the whole point in this exercise.