Automatically a citizen?
No. Simply no.
1. Even what you quoted shows what you said to be wrong.
What you quoted without citing.
If one parent is a U.S. citizen and the other parent is not, the child is a citizen if the U.S. citizen parent has been "physically present"[SUP][16][/SUP] in the U.S. before the child's birth for a total period of at least five years, and at least two of those five years were after the U.S. citizen parent's fourteenth birthday.[SUP][17][/SUP]
Do you see in what you quoted that there are specific factors that determine whether or not a person becomes a citizen?
Those factors show it is not automatic simply because the mother is a citizen.
2. Most importantly.
That is the way the Law is now, not the way it was when Obama was born. Which makes what you provided irrelevant to this specific discussion.
The Law you quote came into being in 1986 and was not the law in effect at the time Obama was born in 1961.
The formatting and the foot notes of what you quoted appear to be an exact match for the Wikipedia entry on the subject. If that is where you obtained the information the following applies.
Had you bothered to look into foot note #17 or hovered over it, you would have found pertinent information regarding the law in effect at the time of his birth thus validating what I said.
Immigration and Nationality Act § 301(g); 8 USC § 1401(g). For children born prior to the enactment of Public Law 99-653 on November 14, 1986, the citizen parent's U.S. presence requirement is ten years, of which at least five years had to have been after the parent's fourteenth birthday.
Again, the argument was if he had born abroad.
Had he been born abroad his mother would not have satisfied the requirements to transfer citizenship upon him. Obama's mother was 18 at his birth, which is only 4 years past her 14th birthday, not 5 as required.
Not true.
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Nope. There is no "yup" about it.
What she said is wrong.
