As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.
It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
I was born in the U.S. This is my country.
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too.
I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.