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How can a baby give false pretense though?
If you find a baby in a field (hiding the spaceship, let's just leave that quiet), what happens next?
A baby cannot bear false witness... It's a baby. The parents can, but that doesn't necessarily affect the baby's citizenship status
Trade it out for the assumed situation...a Kansas teen gave birth to the kid and left him in a field. This is an American with no documentation... But they're assumed to be legit by their age. And so they get documentation
And yeah, Superman doesn't match that situation exactly, but it looks the same from the outside. The state won't know the difference
Ultimately, there are no illegal people. All these roles are made up.... People live where they live. The system is the problem, not the people
I'm saying that to formally adopt him and to formally grant citizenship, lots of paperwork would need to be done. Some of that would require lies, so although the baby might not have lied, the Kent's would have.
First thing with a child found without parents would be to call the police. They would look for identification or signs of the parents where found. Oh, spaceship!
I mean... I don't think the paperwork is going to account for spaceships. So... Put the spaceship in the barn, say you found him out in the field, and there's no fraud
Lies of omission don't count when you're dealing with the state
Doesn't mean the Kent's didn't lie, just that they might not have done anything fraudulently