Ted Cruz is a US citizen as far as I know it.
As far as I know it he didn’t have to undergo a citizenship test and immigration process to become a citizen.
His mother was a US citizen who lived in the United States for at least 10 years after turning 14 years old.
Ergo, ipso facto, Ted Was Born a US Citizen, he could have been born on the moon and he still would have been a US citizen.
Nobody is saying he is not a US Citizen. The problem is according to the Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, he is NOT a Natural Born Citizen. There is a big difference. Natural born requires both parents be Americans and that he be born on American soil. According to the Constitution, Ted Cruz AND Marco Rubio are NOT eligible for the presidency. Either you believe in the Constitution or you don’t.
And bring a u s citizen is not the test. Alas.
“Ergo, ipso facto, Ted Was Born a US Citizen, he could have been born on the moon and he still would have been a US citizen.”
Birth as a U.S. Citizen in 1789 when the U.S. Constitution was adopted along with its natural born citizen clause did not confer U.S. citizenship on a person whose mother was a citizen of the United States and father was a citizen of Spanish Cuba. Such a person was a Spanish citizen or a Spanish subject and not a U.S. citizen. Currently, a person in a foreign nation with a U.S. mother and a foreign citizen father may or may not acquire U.S. citizenship, but any such U.S. citizenship so acquired cannot qualify as natural born citizenship, because a person must be born in the United States with U.S. citizen parents. Being a U.S. citizen does not by itself make a person a natural born U.S. citizen.