Recently, 95 year old Leeland Davidson found out that he's not considered a US citizen, despite the fact that he's lived here his whole life and fought in the US Navy during WWII. Both his parents are from Iowa, but he was born in Canada, and they never bothered to register his birth with the government so that they knew he was a citizen. Now he doesn't know if he'll even be able to prove that his parents were citizens because they were born before the US kept records of birth certificates in 1880. Davidson wants to be considered an American citizen before he dies, but he's been told by his local passport office that if he raises too much attention, he could lose his Social Security, or even be deported.
This whole event seems pointless. Why are they even arguing over whether or not he should be considered a citizen? He spent his whole life living in America and fought for the country, isn't that enough? So what do you think? Should he still have to go through the process of becoming a legal US citizen, or should he automatically be granted his citizenship?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110324/us_yblog_thelookout/wwii-vet-discovers-hes-not-a-u-s-citizen
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I know rules are rules, however for the services rendered to to our country I feel like he should have the right to be a citizen. If it is such a big deal it should have come out before he entered the Navy. I feel like he should not have to endure this red tape.
He should just be granted automatic citizenship. Why would they bother an old man about this....ridiculous. Also, shouldn't they have found this out before he entered the Navy? America fail.
I think he should automatically be allowed to be a U.S. citizen. If he has no criminal records on him and he has he fought for this country, why not let him be a citizen. I know that the government can be strict about rules but in this case they should just let the rules slide and let him become a citizen
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