Seems to me that the term Natural Born Citizen plainly means that you were born in the United States of America.
Was Cruz really born in Canada?
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From what I’ve read in various places, his parents were residents in the USA and were in Canada on a business trip when Ted was born. ...Thus, he was born subject to the jurisdiction of the USA though not on US soil and his mother was a US citizen; father a dry-foot Cuban.
Same applied to McCain and to all children born in foreign countries when a US citizen parent is deployed there in a diplomatic or military role.
Likewise, Bronco Bama’s father was a Kenyan-British citizen and his mother a US citizen. ....Precedent was set.
My look up on Cruz is that he was born of a Cuban father who initially fought in the revolution with Castro. He later broke from Castro. He married a USA citizen and the two worked in Canada for 4 years apart from any USA duties or involvement and it was where /when Cruz was born. The family returned to the USA and the father was not naturalized a USA citizen at the time. For me Cruz does not meet the eligibility requirements for POTUSA. This is probably a good example of good persons not satisfying the Founder’s intentions but also that the Founders were very determined to have POTUSA not have the least bit of ties that could impair allegiance to their USA Constitution. My brother, killed in WWII, and I who served in WWII are in a very similar fix as to similar eligibility. No loss of desire of serving the USA because of our situation.