PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
Arturo Rios-Valenzuela appeals from a district court dismissal of his suit seeking a declaratory judgment that he is a citizen of the United States. We affirm.
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Rios was born in 1956 in Mexico. He claims that his mother was unmarried to his father, and an American citizen at the time, hence she needed only to have been present in the United States for one continuous year for him to be a citizen.
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