Posted on 02/09/2016 6:01:09 AM PST by zek157
No, because she became US citizen before his birth and his father was US citizen.
Can a baby lose US citizenship because his parents renounce it? I didn’t think so.
And Canadian law of course is immaterial from a US legal perspective.
Wonder why he waited till several months ago to renounce hos dual citizenship?
He ought to have a CRBA, but that would be entirely immaterial as to whether or not Canada would or would not consider him a citizen. Canada is a foreign country with it own laws. No law or procedure of the United States could prevent Canada from claimig him as a citizen if that were their will. The need for renunciation of Canadian citizenship is not something required by our laws, but it is by theirs. That’s the reson the renunciation had to be made to the Canadian authorities, not the US.
The CRBA is useful, but it is not a requirement..
>>> No, because she became US citizen before his birth and his father was US citizen. <<<
Yeah? Where’s the paper trail.
In before the multi-thousand word copy’n’paste replies, replete with giant fonts and cap-locking.
Joe,
How did this occur if it wasn’t a legal option? Ted Cruz, who was a dual citizen, formally renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2014.
Laws are for the little people?
I don’t have it, but am quite sure Trump does.
Trump does have a US birth certificate. Cruz does not.
He was NBC Canadian at the time of his birth at least according to Canadian law at that time. I had to get the CRBA for my kids born in Germany or they would not have been recognized as US citizens and issued US passports. Just saying “I am American” would not have cut it.
I’ve been asking to see the CRBA for a month.
You are correct to point out how important it is.
This is getting to sound like the mysterious Zero birth certificate with a slightly different twist,
Has Donald Trump (who acquired British citizenship at birth because his mother was a natural born British citizen) ever renounced his British citizenship?
Glad you cleared that up, I was thinking, now there’s a guy that really plans ahead!
Either courts will worry about such a document or—since his mother was a US citizen—they won’t.
According to US law, US law trumps Canadian law—so if Canadian law saw him as a citizen who must have a Consular Report of Birth to prove him a US citizen... that doesn’t matter.
This is silly. The First Congress’s law of 1790 declares, “And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens.”
First Congress laws—since that congress consisted of those who composed the Constitution, the Founding Fathers themselves—are the strongest indicator of original intent...and definitely are much more relevant than Canadian law from 200 years later.
End of story.
A while back, I posted an image of Trump’s birth certificate, and a Cruz supporter dismissed it as a forgery, just like Obama’s.
You can’t win.
When Mama Trump became a U.S. citizen a few years before The Donald’s birth, she had to renounce her U.K. citizenship. Renouncing your homeland’s citizenship was mandatory in order to be granted U.S. citizenship back then. Today she could be a ‘dual citizen’ which I personally think is nonsense, but the current law.
Thanks for the clarification....haven’t had enough coffee, yet, this morning and that was a real brain teaser ;-)
If Cruz/s parents declared US citizenship for him in Canada, then he has a document called a Consular Report of Birth Abroad.....the legal equivalent of a US Birth Certificate.
Cruz either has one from the time of his birth or he does not. If he does not then he is not a US Citizen....as he was never naturalized by his own admission.
More importantly, Cruz/s birthplace did not recognize dual nationality. So it appears Cruz schemed to dupe Texas voters by the charade of renouncing his Canadian citizenship (after the Dallas Morning News exposed him).
Cruz either has that Consular Report of Birth Abroad, which is his legal proof of US Citizenship or he doesn't.
Would appear his parents never applied for it....making Cruz a bonafide Canadian.
Significantly, Canada prohibited dual nationality at the time of Cruz/s birth.
If Cruz can/t produce Consular Report of Birth Abroad, there's a little problem with the US Senate office Cruz holds now (and was elected to under false pretenses) .......not to mention his aspirations to be US President.
The Texas voters he represents also have a gripe or two.
The issue isn’t citizenship but natural born. I have no idea but wish the issue would go away. If there is a document Cruz can release I wish he would unseal it so we can look at issues that liberals are using to destroy America and this.
LOL.
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