Mr./Mrs. Kathsua, I think whatever ‘link’ you may have intended to post ignores the fact that Ted Cruz’s mother IS a United States citizen. Now, his father was certainly naturalized, but irrelevant to our conversation. Senator Cruz had no need to be naturalized, as he was a citizen upon his birth. THAT is the law, THAT is what has been confirmed by myriads of judges and Constitutional scholars, and while there are those that disagree, their arguments don’t rely on anything purely Constitutional. Those arguments rely on extrapolation, and flimsy, overly creative interpretations that have no unifying principle. The point being that the founders were concerned about foreign agents becoming the president. Is that what principle you are worried about? Is Ted
Cruz a Canadian spy? LOL
Governor LePage, an American citizen, has two daughters who were born in Canada. He publicly stated that both daughters had to be naturalized in order to be American citizens.
Why one rule for LePage’s daughters and a different rule for Cruz?
You’ve obviously forgotten why Barack Obama had to come up with what many of us consider a forged birth certificate. If he had been born in Kenya he would not have been a U.S. citizen. He also had an American citizen mother and a non-citizen father. However, his mother did not qualify to obtain citizenship for Barack because unlike Cruz’s mother she did not meet the standards in naturalization law to obtain citizenship for a child born outside the U.S.. At the time of Obama’s birth his mother had not lived in the U.S. for the required 5 years after her 14th birthday. Cruz’s mother met this requirement.