Did Cruz undergo a naturalization ceremony in order to become a citizen? No. Therefore he is a natural born citizen.
Your logic tree indicates that each and every anchor baby born in Laredo is qualified to assume the office of the President or Vice President. Correct?
(In reality, true, they are born “citizens,”( Do not require Naturalization) But not “Natural Born” because their parents are not US citizens).
I finally found the retention requirements that governed Cruz’s situation because of the 1952 Immigration and Naturalization Act.
Basically, under the statute, someone like Cruz, having been born abroad to an alien parent and a citizen parent, would lose his citizenship unless he later, as a young adult, fulfilled certain U.S. residency requirements.
Actually, they are not legal citizens; because, in being the children of illegal aliens, the are not “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States” - which is what the 14th Amendment requires. Just as American Indians (non-taxpaying) living on Indian Reservations are considered sovereign citizens of THEIR tribe or “nation” ...
So too it cannot be legitimately stated that those children born on U.S. soil to illegal squatters / trespassers - who themselves are in fact neither citizens nor subject to the jurisdiction of the United States - are yet under the jurisdiction of the U.S.