1) Being born on US soil is not a requirement for US Citizenship at birth. Even the first Congress knew this and to make sure everyone else did as well, specifically passed the first Naturalization Act (1790) to clarify NBC citizen to include those born beyond the borders of the US. Further, jus soli was not an exclusive and inclusive means of citizenship until the passage of the 14th Amendment.
2) Mrs Cruz was not a Canadian citizen
3) USC Title 8 section 1401 - Nationals and Citizens of the United States at Birth, is the governing law. Further, USC Title 8 section 1101 - Definitions; defines that naturalization occurs only after birth. It is the conditions of one’s birth that determines how one is naturally born. One is either naturally born a citizen or naturally born an alien. Cruz was naturally born a US Citizen. Has been from birth, has never needed naturalization and will never need naturalization.
Do you believe that any person who signed the US Constitution or who served on the Supreme Court prior to 1954 would regard someone born to an alien father in a foreign land as a “natural born citizen”?
The very idea of it is absurd.
The Cruz family origins are very sketchy. The Wiki story line does not much his official records. Here are their known records, lots of red flags! Enough to line the streets for a Communist May Day Parade!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/anna-tomerlin/rafael-edward-ted-cruz-family-timeline/998233746879858
Both Rafaels raise questions that are not easily answered.
A. Who paved Cruz’s way into Princeton & Harvard? Who paid? Without connections it’s very hard to gain acceptance. He did not come from an Ivy prep school. Hispanic foreign Canadian status? Not worth much for a scholarship. He hasn’t whined about paying off student loans. Someone had to help Cruz land SCOTUS clerkships. Has there been an invisible hand behind Ted due to his father’s past?... Poppy?
B. Rafael B. Cruz is an interesting character. Cubans, especially those his age, express bitter deep hatred and anger towards Fidel Castro. They have family and friends that Fidel imprisoned, tortured or murdered. Repression and communism destroyed their lives. Castro seized all their assets - homes, property, businesses, banks, cars, and personal wealth. They lost their freedom to speak freely, object, assemble, travel, etc... they lost everything and they will curse Castro as long forever. Fidel = Satan.
The Cubans lucky enough to escape Castro, never ever went back during those years. Rafael went back. Certainly Cruz would have been receiving very negative news back from Cuba from his family and friends. Yet he claims that he returned in 1959.
1) Cruz’s passage to America is sketchy. Hola! It only makes sense that he was a planted pro-Castro guy. He was sent specifically to Texas to live among other 5 Cuban communist exile students. (250,000 of his countrymen-exiles went to Florida.) But, If Cruz had been protesting pro-Castro in Miami, his life would have been over. Para-military groups were training in the Florida Everglades with plans to overthrow Castro and liberate Cuba. Omega 66 and other factions would have eliminated Cruz rather quickly. I guess that’s why they sent the commies to Houston / Austin.
2) Aliases. Cruz’s explanation for dropping his family name tied to his Spanish heritage is rather uncommon.
3) How does a foreign teenage kid get immediate acceptance to a Texas University with no English? Hola! Who pays tuition, room & board? How did he get from Key West to Texas twice? Someone made lots of arrangements for 17YO Cruz.
4) Cruz spoke no English when he arrived, he stayed one month, went back to Cuba (documented), missed the first month of school and then began his first semester as an alien non-English speaking kid? How did he immediately begin University level courses and graduate in four years with a Math & Chem. Eng. degree?
5) What happened to Cruz’s family in Cuba- parents, siblings, cousins? Hola! Did any eventually emigrate?
6) The Cuban community sticks together like glue. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans fled to Florida - Miami, Orlando, Tampa. A Cuban teenager alone in Texas is quite the anomaly. One article mentions that there were five Cubans at UT, they must have been planted together, right there as comrades, for a reason. The survival of five commie kids is the only answer. And he is writing articles to the local paper about the need for the US to PUNISH Cuban refugees and deny them rights?? Hola!
7) Canada. There was lots of oil exploration centered right underneath Cruz’s feet, in Texas. Cruz left Texas for some other reason. (Draft evasion + bigamy +/or evading unpleasantries related to whatever he was ACTUALLY doing. )
8) Did Rafael resume his seismic-computer career in Texas after he sold his company in Canada. Why didn’t he apply his Math degree and Chemical engineering degree in Texas as referred to in the news article? There’s a very nice article at the link about his graduate studies in those fields.
9) After reviewing all these records, one must question authenticity and character in regards to citizenship and status. Cruz maintained Cuban citizenship for nearly 15 years after leaving his Castro and did not obtain US citizenship until Ted entered politics in 2005. Hola! Why did it take him nearly 50 years after emigrating? Cruz was a Cuban 30+ years...Canadian 35+ years.....American......10 years. He was a bigamist for 30 years and divorced both wives the same year 1996. (Garza ‘59-’96 and Ted’s Mum ‘67-’96)
This ole dog don’t hunt..... flimflamflimflamflimflamflimflam
https://www.facebook.com/notes/anna-tomerlin/rafael-edward-ted-cruz-family-timeline/998233746879858
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3424250/posts
Do you have proof of that?
All I've seen in support of that statement is her American COLB.
A Certificate of Live Birth in the US is nice, but so what?
Did she or did she not become a Canadian citizen?
Ted Cruz supposedly has locked down those records, so how would you know one way or the other?
You made the statement. Back it up. Prove it. Who are these people???