Somehow I just do NOT believe that Founders would have considered the following natural born and qualified for president. For that reason I consider Rubio and Cruz to be ambitious slime!
-Born in Canada
-Parents permanently settled in Canada
-Father a Cuban national
-Did not leave Canada until into his 4th year
-No record of recording his American citizenship as a child
-Did not renounce his Canadian citizenship until into his forties
-Has never provided proof that he is a citizen of the U.S. at all
-And...I have read that his mother voted in Canadian elections.
If Cruz is a natural born citizen then so is the child, grandchild, great grandchild of every baby who gives birth and lives in a foreign country. In a few generations half of the world's population will be eligible for the U.S. presidency!
Children of Mexican war lords born in Mexico to American anchor baby moms could run for president.
As best I have been able to summarize from this brouhaha: we have an ambiguous situation because the term NBC, which actually was present in statute at the time the Constitution was ratified, is now an orphan term, not used in any statute. This leaves it up to the tea leaf readers what it might mean. Most have taken it to mean born in US of citizens. But now there have been challenges around the edges, challenges which we could make a cogent case are unseemly.
Nonsense and factually wrong. You have partaken of the kool-aid.