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The original United States Naturalization Law of March 26, 1790 (1 Stat. 103) provided the first rules to be followed by the United States in the granting of national citizenship. This law limited naturalization to immigrants who were free white persons of good character. It thus excluded American Indians, indentured servants, slaves, free blacks, and Asians. It also provided for citizenship for the children of U.S. citizens born abroad, but specified that the right of citizenship did “not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States.” It specifies that such children “shall be considered as natural born citizens,” the only US statute ever to use the term. (From Wikipedia). Ted Cruz is “natural born” not “naturalized.”

Citing wikipedia and the 1790 naturalization act for the proposition that Cruz is an NBC is a popular hobby. But the amateur lawyer does not know the Act of 1790 creates a legal fiction, something false in fact is deemed true for purposes of further legal action, and does not know that wikipedia is not a legal authority.

Bless your heart, I believe you mean well and suffer from innocent ignorance. I wish you the very best, and I mean that sincerely.