If you didn't need to get naturalized to become a US citizen, you are natural born.
All of Trump's comments about Cruz are therefore silly and uninformed.
“If you didn’t need to get naturalized to become a US citizen, you are natural born.”
That is an oft repeated lie. Senator Ted Cruz was naturalized at birth by the statutory laws for naturalization.
U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual Volume 7
Consular Affairs. 7 FAM 1150 ACQUISITION OF U.S. CITIZENSHIP BY NATURALIZATION. 7 FAM 1151 INTRODUCTION...
8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(23); INA 101(a)(23)) defines naturalization as “the conferring of nationality of a state upon a person after birth by any means whatsoever.” For the purposes of this subchapter naturalization includes:...
(5) “Automatic” acquisition of U.S. citizenship after birth, a form of naturalization by certain children born abroad to U.S. citizen parents or children adopted abroad by U.S. citizen parents.
To be a natural born citizen a person must acquire U.S. citizenship by the sole authority of natural law. That is why it is called “natural” born citizenship. The Constitution has no clause granting it the power to birth (natus) a natural born citizen. The constitution only granted the Congress the power to establish a uniform Rule for Naturalization, meaning the making (datus) of aliens to be “considered sa” or accepted as if they were actual natural born U.S. citizens in many but not every respect, right or duty.