If a space Alien landed in the states. And hooked up with one of his or her fellow travelers and had a kid in the US would that kid be a US citizen? Or do we have something in place for it?

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It depends on how you (or the Supreme Court) defines “persons”.

  They might technically have to become corporations.

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No, the laws governing citizenship only apply to human beings.

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  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Technically they apply to Persons, Persons hasn’t been tested against an extra-terrestrial Alien in court yet. I would suspect that it would apply if they are intelligent enough to travel to earth to be quite honest.

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So with that said they thought of the before hand then.?

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    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Morelike they considered people would attempt to give their dog citizenship.

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• remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Or do we have something in place for it?

  A free stay at a government research facility for the entire family.

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  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was just watching THe Incredible Mr. Limpet last night. Don Knotts turns into a fish and tries to help the US Navy find Nazi submarines. They spend the first bit of their exhcnages trying to kill or trap him, which absolutely tracks.

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• yenahmik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My dog was born in the US and I’m pretty certain he isn’t considered a citizen. There are billions (if not trillions) of individuals born in the US every year who aren’t citizens because they aren’t humans.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s exactly how Kang and Kudos took over politics.

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• radiofreebc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Depends if it came in on an Epstein Visa or not.

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I love the term ‘space alien’. I think that’s how aliens would like to be called.

  Since the question of earthly citizenship comes first, i don’t think american citizenship would even be considered (de juris citizenship ((birthright citizenship)) applies only to humans i think, anyway, so alien would be comsidered an animal for the purposes of not filing paperwork on it)

  Does Earth have de juris citizenship? For all species in general i don’t think anyone has written that it does, but i bet the UN woild support considering that Space Alien to be the first of its species native to Earth.

  However, the alien species might not even have a concept themselves of de juris citizenship and may only care about bloodline.

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