Criminal Defense of Immigrants

(C)  Foundlings Assumed to be U.S. Citizens.  The immigration laws allow “a person of unknown parentage found in the United States while under the age of five years” to be considered a citizen of the United States, unless the person is “shown, prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to have been born in the United States.”[43]

[43] INA § 301(f), 8 U.S.C. § 1401(f).