Thread: Nationality in Question After Baby Born on Flight

Nationality in Question After Baby Born on Flight Four Hours Out of San Francisco

Published September 21, 2011



Boston – Officials were trying Tuesday to ascertain the nationality of a baby born mid-flight, apparently while over international waters, in a passenger jet heading from the Philippines to the U.S.

Pregnant Philippines woman Aida Alamillo, 41, was on Philippine Airlines Fight 104 from Manila on Monday when she began to feel nauseous and realized she was in labor, earlier than expected.

A short time later, about four hours out of San Francisco and at 30,000 feet (9145m), she gave birth to a healthy, six-pound (2.7kg) boy.

Flight attendants had taken her to a private spot in the business class cabin and summoned for help from passengers -- resulting in three nurses volunteering to help, NBC Bay Area reported. The rest of the travelers burst into applause on hearing the baby had been born.

"I didn't expect I would have a baby there ... it just happened," she said, according to NBC Bay Area, explaining that she had been given permission by her doctor to fly despite being due on Sept. 28.

Alamillo was on her way to Massachusetts at the time, with a visa for travel to the US.

Her sister Leoni Bauermeister, who lives in Beverly, Mass., told myFOXboston.com Alamillo was immigrating to the state with her three other children -- and hoped to have her fourth child there so it would automatically become a U.S. citizen.

According to Jennifer Vaughn, from the Center for Immigration Studies, if a child is born over open ocean it is generally considered a citizen of the country where the parent has legal citizenship in. If a baby is born in American airspace it is a U.S. citizen.

Alamillo and her son were Tuesday at a hospital in San Francisco but could be leaving by Thursday to head to Massachusetts. NBC Bay Area said she named the child Kevin Raymar Francis Domingo -- with "Francis" a salute to his surprise arrival on the way to San Francisco.


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Her sister Leoni Bauermeister, who lives in Beverly, Mass., told my FOX boston . com Alamillo was immigrating to the state with her three other children -- and hoped to have her fourth child there so it would automatically become a U.S. citizen.

But there is no such thing as birthright citizenship tourism!
Isn't that what they keep trying to convince us?

Alamillo was on her way to Massachusetts at the time, with a visa for travel to the US.

Did this visa grant permission to emigrate to the US or was she going to overstay it and squat illegally? If it's the latter, make sure to send her and her 4 kids back when it expires.

"I didn't expect I would have a baby there ... it just happened," she said, according to NBC Bay Area, explaining that she had been given permission by her doctor to fly despite being due on Sept. 28.

BULL CRAP!!!!! Get that doctor's license!!!!!!

That baby nor that mother should be allowed through customs.

Put her on a turn around flight, the birth record is there problem. They were probably over international waters at the time anyway. The baby is not an American. Not born on American soil. The baby is a Philippines National.

The Philippines let her get on the airplane pregnant, it's there problem.

Dixie

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By international law, the notion of a country's sovereign airspace corresponds with the maritime definition of territorial waters as being 12 nautical miles (22.2 km) out from a nation's coastline. Airspace not within any country's territorial limit is considered international, analogous to the "high seas" in maritime law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace

Their average speed is about 500 knots or around 600 mph.

The baby was born 4 hours from San Francisco and therefore born about 2,400 miles from US territory.

That's not an American child. PERIOD.

Dixie

Originally Posted by Dixie

By international law, the notion of a country's sovereign airspace corresponds with the maritime definition of territorial waters as being 12 nautical miles (22.2 km) out from a nation's coastline. Airspace not within any country's territorial limit is considered international, analogous to the "high seas" in maritime law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace

Their average speed is about 500 knots or around 600 mph.

The baby was born 4 hours from San Francisco and therefore born about 2,400 miles from US territory.

That's not an American child. PERIOD.

Dixie

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Are you sure about this? According to the ACLU, SPLC, LaRaza and the US Congress, ALL OF MEXICO is within US territory.

Philippine Airlines Fight 104

Their citizen, their airline in international waters. She is just trying for a save to her plan.

Unbelievable.....there should never been a discussion about this. Is any common sense left?? The child should be a citizen of the mother's country. It's obvious what this woman was doing.....getting the whole family in the country thru the newborn "U.S. citizen".

Perhaps no visa's for pregnant women? A case could be made we are just looking out for their welfare? After all it seems the health ,welfare, life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness of Foreign Nationals is a primary concern of our current Leader and his minions on so many levels.