Posted on 03/31/2016 12:18:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Section 301 (a) (7) A person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such a person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years; Provided, that any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States by such a citizen parent may be included in computing the physical presence requirements in this paragraph.
Okay, so this says someone in Cruz’s situation is a citizen at birth. Does mean they are not a natural born citizen.
RE: Hey Seek And Find don’t run and hide
If I were running and hiding I would not be responding to you.
The question I asked is this -— is there evidence to show that Cruz’s mother applied for and was granted Canadian citizenship?
And if she did, did she STOP being American as a result of that?
Here is what the US IMMIGRATION SUPPORT WEB SITE SAYS:
https://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/dual-citizenship.html
“The U.S. government allows dual citizenship. United States law recognizes U.S. Dual Citizenship, but the U.S. government does not encourage it is as a matter of policy due to the problems that may arise from it. It is important to understand that a foreign citizen does NOT lose his or her citizenship when becoming a U.S. citizen. An individual that becomes a U.S. citizen through naturalization may keep his or her original citizenship. However, as some countries do not recognize dual citizenship, it is important to consider it carefully before applying for U.S. citizenship”
The law grants the status “citizen”.
Do you want to insert words into the statute?
You in 55:
> WAS TED CRUZ’s mother an American citizen at the time of his birth? Did Ted Cruz have to go through naturalization in order to receive his US passport?
>
> If the answers are ‘Yes’ to the first and ‘No’ to the second, then he is a US citizen by birth.
Did the citizen parent have to met the requirement of statute?
RE: Did the citizen parent have to met the requirement of statute?
Please be a little clearer — what statute and what requirements are you referring to?
Who are the bitter clingers?
Used to be the ignorant people clinging to guns and religion according to the left.
Today, it’s the little trumpers.
Clinging frantically to Trumps coattails no matter what he does.
One of their main and most beloved weapons is claiming Ted Cruz is not eligible.
Looks like that’s heading for the dumpster where it belongs.
The Courts do.
They only recognize two ways to acquire citizenship by birth and by naturalization.
The statute applicable to Cruz.
Let the supremes sing and let’s move on
Little trumpers are already declaring Wisconsin nothing much and with few electoral votes.
Of course, Trump was scrambling and threatening to sue over the votes he lost in Louisiana through his own incompetence.
RE: The statute applicable to Cruz.
Which is?
So many trumpers have some legal opinion from somewhere that they rush in to cut and paste.
I notice Trump backed off his idea to sue Ted on this.
Wonder why?
Does he have standing to sue? Probably.
Does he have lawyers? Many
Does he know he would lose? Yeah, baby.
Pub.L. 82-414 § 301(a)(7),(b); 66 Stat. 236
http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=66&page=236#
Donnie is funny as hell but wait until he wakes up in his bed in Trump Towers and tweets out a declaration of war on somebody.
Based on that, I would say “yes” he does.
A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one non-citizen parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, provided the American parent was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child’s birth.
For birth between Dec. 24, 1952, and Nov. 13, 1986, a period of 10 years — five after the age of 14 — is required for physical presence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child.
Since Cruz entered the United States in possession of a United States passport, I presume his mother met the physical presence requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
This is not my opinion, it is the opinion of an immigration judge. see here:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-0228-saturday-ted-cruz-20150228-story.html
Then, obviously, if the citizen parent does not meet the requirement of statute there is no grant of citizenship.
Therefore the cause of the citizenship is the statute, not the birth.
RE: Then, obviously, if the citizen parent does not meet the requirement of statute there is no grant of citizenship.
The statute says that the parent ( the American one ) prior to the birth of the child, must have been living in the United States for a period of 10 years at least five of which must be after the age of 14. Cruz’s mother met the requirements.
RE: Therefore the cause of the citizenship is the statute, not the birth.
Why is that?
why can’t the cause of citizenship be the citizenship of the mother AT his birth?
“How did his mom vote in Canadian elections?”
Is this true? No one has been able to confirm this rumor when I have asked on other threads.
What was the basis of this dismissal? Any body know?
BTW, I hope no one is naive enough to believe that this ruling IN ANY WAY will slow down the torrent of NBC challenges by the Democrats should Donald get shot and Cruz get the nomination.
Most idiots won’t.
That is totally true. Two MEMOS from two federal agencies were what he based his ruling on. Of course, neither of these had any standing.
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