Posted on 08/21/2015 8:52:17 AM PDT by maggief
Marcella, I do now see you were commenting on the Vietnam Nam children, apologies if I interrupted!
Cruz was a dual citizen at birth. He formally renounced his Canadian citizenship a few years ago. He never renouced his American citizenship.
Grandson could be president but he would have to give up his British citizenship as it is required for the candidate to have only ONE allegiance to a country.
Cruz was also a Canadian citizen, but he gave up that citizenship so he has only one allegiance to a country.
Was his mother underage? (Ted Cruz)
No, Ted’s mom was not underage when he was born. Obama’s mother was underage which the laws on the books at the time when Obama was born indicated that his mother did not automatically pass on her citizenship when she was out of the country. Somehow this part of the significance of where Obama was born never seems to get mentioned by the MSM.
Ann Coulter says Cruz is ineligible to be president and I go along with this. Saw her on TV saying this.
>Wow, I didn't think there was one spec of Birther trivia that I did not know, but I was wrong. I had never heard this before. You must have wasted more time on this than I did!! Well done, and thanks for helping educate me.
“Ann Coulter says Cruz is ineligible to be president and I go along with this. Saw her on TV saying this.”
Then I guess John McCain (born in Panama), Barry Goldwater (born in AZ before it was a U.S. state) and George Romney (born in Mexico to American missionaries) were all ineligible to run. I’ll stick with Cruz’s interpretation on this — he is, after all, a constitutional lawyer.
Knew he had a wife back in Kenya but would a Kenyan marriage be legal in the US?
I have heard a old rhyme about American Indian wedding ceremony that consisted of “ jump up husband jump up squaw, you are married under the law”. Kenya was a British colony at the time. Would it be legal because of that?
Too many “ what ifs” for me to make sense of it.
But, I do believe much about Zero has been concealed, so no one can say for sure, and I don't dismiss those who hold to Kenyan birth as being conspiracy theorists, they just have a different interpretation of the sparse evidence.
The left went after McCain on the NBC thing. Totally ridiculous since McCain parents were both US citizens and on deployment by the US Navy. So if the Rats went after McCain, it is a certainty the Rats will, with great effect, go after Cruz on the NBC thing.
I agree “natural born” is a different and higher standard than just “citizen”. From my research, there are really only two categories of citizens though, the “natural born” and the “naturalized”. I think the reason it was not officially defined in the Constitution is because the founders probably thought (perhaps foolishly) that the difference would be obvious enough not to require a formal definition.
Still, if you are not “naturalized”, then it stands to reason you must be “natural born”, for there is no 3rd category of citizen mentioned anywhere. Any other terms used are just synonymous with one of those two categories.
There are quite a few American women married to Iranian men. So you are telling me that the children of those women are eligible to be president of the USA? Really?
You are not a US citizen if you have dual citizenship. To be a US citizen means you own allegiance to the US and only the US. For most of our history that was the law, and I hope once again to be the law. The Marxist left changed that and our migration laws back in LBJ days. We need to change those laws back to pre LBJ days.
No...she was already a college graduate when Ted was born.
John McCain (born in Panama)......Ineligible as far as I know, Was he born on a military base? No one is sure. Last I read he was born in a hospital off the military base
I can't figure out why people believe that our Founders, who were concerned about the loyalty of the President above and beyond the loyalty of any other official, would find it sufficient if the President had just a single citizen parent rather than both; as if loyalty to that one non-citizen parent does not create a conflict of interest.
European monarchs routinely found themselves married to foreigners for the very purpose of creating alliances which their children would recognize and by which they would be influenced.
Babies born to foreign diplomats stationed in the U.S. do not become U.S. citizens. The words of the Fourteenth Amendment, "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" do not apply to those in the U.S. with diplomatic immunity.
Similarly, at least some U.S. military stationed in foreign countries are there under the provisions of treaties with those countries and are not completely "subject to the jurisdiction" of those countries. Also, such people are perhaps completely "subject to the jurisdiction" of the U.S. government.
Thus it is completely possible that a child born to a U.S. military couple located in a foreign country does not gain the citizenship of that country. To suggest that such a child becomes a "stateless person" because of the location of his two U.S. citizen parents is, I think, a conclusion without merit.
underage kids born here —
Most kids born here are underage.
No doubt about me. —
Unless you have White Privilege.
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