by Mark Steyn • May 27, 2014
Last week, I wrote about Meriam Ibrahim, the pregnant Christian woman sentenced to death by Judge Abbas Mohammed al-Khalifa in Khartoum for the crime of "apostasy". Before she dies, she'll receive a bonus 100 lashes for "adultery". Being a merciful man, His Honor announced he would let the convicted criminal give birth to her child before he hanged her.
Today, in a filthy, disease-ridden Sudanese prison Meriam was delivered of a baby girl, whom she has named Maya.
I have described Meriam as, de facto, an "American-in-waiting". That's to say, the grant of citizenship to the spouse of an American is essentially non-discretionary - notwithstanding that the sclerotic US bureaucracy takes years to process it. And Meriam's husband is a US citizen, resident in my state: Daniel Wani of Manchester, New Hampshire has been an American since 2005. As I've said, all the President has to do is take five minutes out of his busy schedule to call the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and instruct them to make Mrs Wani a US citizen now. And then he can pose with a #BringBackOurGirl hashtag, and it will be legally binding.
But what of this latest member of the unfortunate Wani family? Maya, like her 20-month old brother Martin, is the child of a US citizen, and therefore a US citizen, too. That's to say, they are as American as Barack Obama, who, like Maya and Martin, is the child of one American parent and one African parent. Or - if you want to be bipartisan about it - as American as Ted Cruz. …
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