Rick Santorum can't prove he is Natural Born Citizen

NOW THIS I HAVE NEVER HEARD BEFORE!

Clinicalthinker, thank you for the headsup! Where have I been? Not a squeak has been heard on any of the news channels about the accusations that Rick Santorum may not be a natural born citizen. So I did the following research:

Wikipedia states:

Santorum was born in Winchester, Virginia, and raised in Berkeley County, West Virginia, and Butler County, Pennsylvania. He is a son of Aldo Santorum (1923-2011)[6][7] and his wife, Catherine Santorum (née Dughi, born 1918).[7] His father was an Italian immigrant, originally from Riva del Garda, Italy,[6] and his mother is of half-Italian and half-Irish descent.[8][9][10][11]

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Rick Santorum’s father died one year ago. The internet records:

In Memory of
Aldo Santorum

January 9, 1923 - January 15, 2011
http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Aldo-Santorum&lc=2310&pid=148126334&mid=4518909

Aldo Santorum, 88, passed away January 15, 2011. Arrangements under the direction of National Cremation & Burial Society, Jacksonville, FL 904-346-3331.

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Another obituary states:

Aldo Santorum

(there was a cost of $2.95 for the Obituary: (I didn't pay the $2.95 so I don't get the full obituary). But is gives the 1st 25 words:

Dr. Aldo Santorum, 88, was born on January 9, 1923 in Riva de Garda, Italy. He died at home on January 15, 2011. He...

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/islandpacket/obituary-preview.aspx?n=aldo-santorum&pid=147937816&referrer=2377#storylink=cpy

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A more complete obituary is found online at
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/obituaries/news/s_719135.html

Psychologist Aldo Santorum devoted career to fellow veterans

By Salena Zito, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, January 21, 2011

Aldo Santorum called the GI Bill the greatest gift he received. He gave back by building a career and family around veterans hospitals.

"We always lived on the campus of the veterans hospitals. It was called the domiciliary," said his son, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Penn Hills. "I always joked that I spent my childhood living in public housing."

Aldo Santorum of Crescent Beach, Fla., a clinical psychologist for the VA, died Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011, in the home where he and his wife, Catherine Dughi, lived the past 20 years. He was 88.

Mr. Santorum was born in the Trento province of Italy to Maria and Pietro Santorum. Aldo, his mother, older brother Bruno and younger sister Carla moved to the Johnstown area when he was 7 to join his father, who came to the United States five years earlier.

"My grandfather was working in the auto industry but lost his job during the Depression," Rick Santorum said. "He finally found a job in the coal mines of Western Pennsylvania in 1929 and the family joined him."

The family lived in a company town called Carpenters Park. "After several years in the mines, the family moved upscale to nearby Tyler Hill," Santorum said.

Mr. Santorum joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 after high school, serving most of World War II in the South Pacific where his main job was repairing airplanes.

After returning from the war, he earned a psychology degree from St. Francis College in Loretto, a graduate degree from Catholic University in Washington and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Ottawa.

"He then went to work for the Veterans Administration and that is where he met my mom," Rick Santorum said.

Catherine Dughi worked for the VA as an administrative nurse, and both were assigned to the VA hospital in Martinsburg, W.Va. After having three children -- Barbara, Rick and Dan -- the family moved to the Butler VA Hospital in the early 1960s, where they stayed for more than a decade.

They were transferred one more time, in 1974, to North Chicago. When Mr. Santorum retired in 1990, he and his wife moved to Crescent Beach.

"My father had a muscle disorder that was never fully diagnosed. When he retired he was already using a cane; in the last years he was in a wheelchair," Rick Santorum said.

"He was always the cook of the family. On Sundays we would always have pasta and sauce. When I was a kid, I didn't like his sauce -- it was too heavy -- but now I find myself making the same thing for my kids," he said. The favorite meal for the Santorum children was Dad's black bean soup.

"Dad was a talker. He was always on the phone telling me what I was doing right, but more often what I was doing wrong," Santorum said.

Both parents were active in Santorum's early congressional career, working phones and polls and moving temporarily to Mt. Lebanon in 1994 for his successful run for U.S. Senate.

In addition to his wife and children, Mr. Santorum is survived by 10 grandchildren. A memorial service will be held Saturday in Corpus Christi Church in Crescent Beach.

Read at: Psychologist Aldo Santorum devoted career to fellow veterans - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/obituaries/news/s_719135.html#ixzz1iVvgYFac

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World Net Daily has the best “Family History.” I quote the last half of their article that is found at:
http://www.wnd.com/2011/12/376953/

“…Questions had remained about Santorum’s status, based on his repeated references to his immigrant father.

But Catherine Santorum, the former senator’s mother, told WND, “I was born in the country; I have my birth certificate, and I have the citizenship papers of my husband Aldo,” Rick Santorum’s father.

She said published reports that place Aldo Santorum in U.S. military uniform from 1942 to 1946 are correct.

“He was in the Army Air Corps, in India and elsewhere. And I
have records of that too,” she said.

As she evidently was born in the country, and Rick Santorum’s father would have been granted citizenship based on his military service long before the former senator’s birth in 1958, the evidence strongly indicates Santorum’s eligibility.

His campaign declined to respond to WND requests for comment.

The testimony of Catherine Santorum regarding her son’s eligibility for president was sought after public records in Somerset and Mifflin counties in Pennsylvania and the Department of Defense yielded no definitive answer.

These public records reveal that father Aldo Santorum was one of more than eight million Americans who served in uniform in World War II, yet the Department of Defense made available on the Internet the war service records of only several hundred thousands, Aldo Santorum not among them. And there was no record that Aldo Santorum obtained citizenship in Somerset County, Pa., the logical place where Aldo Santorum’s father, Pietro, could have automatically conferred it on him by taking the oath of allegiance. Rick Santorum’s grandfather departed from Riva del Garda, Italy, and arrived in New York in 1923, being “lawfully admitted,” according to the official Certificate of Arrival of the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Naturalization, a copy of which is in the possession of WND. Pietro ultimately moved to Somerset County and there, in 1927, he renounced allegiance to any foreign power, according to another document obtained by WND. Aldo, also born in Italy, came to the U.S. at the age of 7 in 1930 with his mother, but no documents yet confirm his status at that time or up to his apparent departure for war in 1942.

However, Catherine’s statements affirm Aldo’s citizenship a few years later.

On Rick Santorum’s mother’s side, the records show that Dominic Dughi, an Italian citizen and grandfather of Catherine Santorum, arrived in Mifflin County, Pa., in 1893 after having entered the country legally through New York. In 1899, Dughi made a Declaration of Intention to become a U.S. citizen, according to the Mifflin County court record, a copy of which WND obtained. But the subsequent confirmation of an oath of allegiance is not available. Adam John Dughi, Dominic’s son and the father of Catherine Santorum, may or may not have been an Italian citizen at the time of his birth. He later married Mayme Keane in 1916. Their child, Catherine, was presumably born in the U.S.

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MY COMMENTS ON THE ABOVE...

I find it strange that no citizenship papers have been produced for Rick Santorum’s mother or for his grandfather. And it is critical that her OATH OF ALLIANCE be available. If not, then Santorum cannot assert that he is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. Both parents have to be NATURALIZED CITIZENS prior to the birth of the child before that child can claim to be NON-ALIEN but a full fledged native citizen (NBC) of the United States.

So at this point, Rich Santorum has not provided the proper proof of his Natural Born Citizenship qualifications. Art II demands that the candidate for POTUS be qualified and therefore prove that qualification.

Edward C. Noonan
President 2012