Canadian and Cuban citizen Rafael Edward Cruz.
American citizen.
Canadian and Cuban citizen Rafael Edward Cruz.
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I hope you’re not here to focus on trying to destroy the true conservatives in the Republican party.
I noticed your FR join date is March 15, 2013—Mama always warned be about the Ides of March. Betrayal comes in many forms.
“Canadian and Cuban citizen Rafael Edward Cruz.”
You joined FR on March 15. Do you have a problem with Cruz? Maybe you would be happier on a liberal Democrat forum where you could dump on Cruz every day.
Did he hold either a Canadian or Cuban passport? Did he undergo a naturalization process to become an American citizen? If the answer is NO (which it is) then he is a natural born citizen.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
88 U.S. 162
Minor v. Happersett
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0088_0162_ZO.html
Additions might always be made to the citizenship of the United States in two ways: first, by birth, and second, by naturalization. This is apparent from the Constitution itself, for it provides [n6] that "no person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President," [n7] and that Congress shall have power "to establish a uniform rule of naturalization." Thus new citizens may be born or they may be created by naturalization.
The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their [p168] parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens. The words “all children” are certainly as comprehensive, when used in this connection, as “all persons,” and if females are included in the last they must be in the first. That they are included in the last is not denied. In fact the whole argument of the plaintiffs proceeds upon that idea.
Under the McCarran-Walter Act, he was still born a citizen, which makes Ted Cruz a natural born citizen.
Give it up.