“Ted Cruz was born outside the country to a woman eligible to confer citizenship.”
Yes, this law is codified in the Immigration and Naturalization Act. The Immigration and Naturalization Act says Cruz is a citizen at birth because of his mother’s citizenship status and age at the time of his birth.
Congress is not authorized to codify any law or rule to establish a uniform rule on Natural born citizenship status, only immigration and naturalization. Consequently, Congressional authority to speak on citizenship status after a non-U.S born person becomes a U.S. Citizen is voided.
Furthermore, SCOTUS has opined natural born citizenship status “stands upon the footing of the native born.” Consequently, only a native born citizen could be a natural born citizen.
And on Obama’s 2008 campaign website ‘Fight The Smears’, it stated:
‘The truth is, Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the United States of America.’
It never stated he was a ‘Natural Born Citizen’.
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Furthermore, SCOTUS has opined natural born citizenship status “stands upon the footing of the native born.” Consequently, only a native born citizen could be a natural born citizen.
Even SCOTUS, no longer a truly trustworthy house, has not determined a final definition of natural born.
A lot of experts do say that the best working definition is a person born to at least one American citizen in good standing (including old enough to confer citizenship), or a person born in this country to parent (s) legally in this country.
In my own opinion, a native born citizen who lives and votes abroad for years is still technically a natural born citizen but wholly unfit for the office of president. I myself am natural born, but possibly unfit from the decade I spent living elsewhere.
