How I despise these people.
UPDATE: In response to this question, a number of Twitter followers have claimed that Cruz is not a natural born U.S. citizen because his mother “renounced” her U.S. citizenship while living in Canada when Cruz was born. This rumor was apparently started by Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, who told the press that Cruz’s mother “may have elected to give up her U.S. citizenship.”
The Cruz campaign says that is categorically false. “She did not renounce her U.S. citizenship,” says Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler. “She was born an American citizen in Delaware. She never had Canadian citizenship. Just like Ted, she has never breathed a single breath on this earth when she was not an American citizen.”
One point I think we’re missing is whether his mother took an oath for Canadian Citizenship and if she renounced her US citizenship by her own actions.
I always thought that there were only two kinds of US citizen, natural born or naturalized. Is there a third way?
I'm still one of many that believes that Obama's birth certificate is a forgery, one of convenience and does not reflect whether he was a US citizen by birth.
Cruz will squash some stuff when he presents his Consular Report of Birth Abroad,his parents Marriage license and such other documents. I doubt he will let anything linger.
And, all of us will know far more about Cruz than the current occupant of the white house, who, with the help of the democrats in congress, have sealed off all of obama’s past from prying eyes.
I really do get confused about this.
For one thing, my father was in a better position than Cruz - born in “Canada” (really, Newfoundland) but to TWO full-citizen Americans. He considered himself never eligible to be president.
Further, he was TS classified for years, yet whenever I applied for clearance, I had to explain how his being born in Newfoundland didn’t matter. I still have a personal note he wrote explaining how he passed into the US at age 2, then was given the option around 18 of either/or citizenship.
Unlike Cruz, my father NEVER held Canadian citizenship, much less up until a little while ago even while a federal public servant?
(I DO question that. Seems totally inappropriate to me to be a senator yet still beholden to another country!)
What is a certainty, is that there is no person alive who has standing to bring the matter to any court.
A natural born citizen is so because of Natural Law not government laws. Some one born on soil with two citizen parents is a natural born citizen because no other sovereign but the sovereign of the soil he was born on has any claim to his elegance.
This is not rocket science.
York keeps making this mistake, so I have to assume it's on purpose. It wasn't about where his parents were born; it was that they weren't American citizens when he was born.
-PJ