Liberia: Alienated Liberians - a Comment

opinion

The New Democrat article on Thursday, May 9, 2013 carried an article called, "500,000 Liberians Alienated", caught my attention. After reading the article several times, I felt compelled to express my views on the issues raised.

The first issue is about "Section 20, 1 (b) of the Nationality Law" which they have called unconstitutional and discriminative against Liberian mothers in that it does not recognize children born outside Liberia to Liberian mothers as Liberian citizens but recognizes children born outside by Liberian fathers as Liberian citizen. I do know that a child born in the US is considered an American citizen until the age of 18 (eighteen). This is when that child can claim the country of their parents or remain a US citizen. And most time these children consider themselves US citizen. I hope you can understand why? This is the country they get to know all of their lives. Secondly, they hear parents telling them all the bad things about Liberia. It did Liberia no good especially during the civil crisis when television validated these parents' claims.

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