Posted on 07/21/2013 5:34:04 PM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter
Since Canadian born Ted Cruz has emerged on the scene in Washington as a future presidential candidate for 2016, attention has turned to whether he is Constitutionally eligible for Article 2 Section 1, the presidential qualification clause. This is what we know. Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Many say that disqualifies him to be eligible for the presidency. Enter former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I came across an interview she did with Fox News's Chris Wallace in February of 2010. During the interview Wallace brought up the fact that since she was born in Canada, she wasn't eligible to be president. Here is the transcript:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/21/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-future-gop/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fpolitics+%2528Text+-+Politics%2529
"GRANHOLM: No, I’m totally focused this year on creating every single job I can until the last moment. December 31st at midnight is when I’ll stop. So I have no idea what I’m going to do next, but I’m not going to run for president. I can tell you that.
WALLACE: Yes, that’s true. We should point out Governor Granholm is a Canadian and cannot run for president.
GRANHOLM: I’m American. I’ve got dual citizenship.”
With that said, I went to the biography of Jennifer Granholm and found that she was born to one American citizen and is indeed a dual Citizen who became 'NATURALIZED' as a U.S. Citizen in 1980 at the age of 21. Now this raises a question. How can a naturalized U.S. Citizen become president of the United States?
Continued below.
But according to Granholm hinting at Wallace since she is a American dual Citizen, she is eligible.
The bottom line is Ted Cruz was not born within the jurisdiction of the United States. He is not a natural born Citizen.
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False.
I already showed you were he was a US citizen at birth as confirmed by the State Department.
Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, December 22, 1970, to a US citizen mother and a Cuban citizen father.
And law:
Canadian Citizenship Act, R.S.C. 1970, c. C-19, s. 5(1,3)
8 U.S.C. § 1401(g)
What specifically do you dispute?
One criterion for a person to be a natural born citizen in the USA is that both parents mush be full USA citizens at the time that a person is born.
Find NBC for me.
And don’t quote some bizarre letter from the 1800’s.
Do you dispute fact or law cited?
I believe it was the Immigration and Nationality Act was created in 1952 that set this clear.
” the Democrats weren’t the enemies of the country like they are now.”
What are you talking about? LBJ gave us the ‘Great Society’ and Ted Kennedy gave us ‘The Immigration Act of 1965’ which both began the moral downfall of America. Those two acts began the downfall of our education system, our family Christian value system, our culture, and our high moral standards that kept this nation together since it’s inception. No wonder Reagan bailed.
He’s not naturalized. Because he was born to a US citizen, he has citizenship by birth; it is possible I think for his mother to have renounced that, in which case he may need to be naturalized. That might have been what happened to Granholm.
Note that neither parent was a citizen of Canada, where he was born. I do not know if Canada allows the born children of non-citizens to have birthright citizenship, but Cruz’s parents never claimed Canadian citizenship for him in either case. They also didn’t make him a Cuban citizen. So he had no dual nationality.
I think it is reasonable to question whether he meets the founder’s definition of “natural born citizen”. However, it has been clear throughout our history that the courts are not going to define that term, or invalidate elections based on that term.
We have had one president who was born on foreign soil already; we have had more than one president who had one parent who was not american.
My favorite question was this — if we decided to strictly enforce a natural-born requirement, requiring that both parents be american, AND that the child be born in the U.S., would that make it impossible for a child conceived from an anonymous sperm donor to be president, since we could not prove the father was american?
http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_5199.html
“One criterion for a person to be a natural born citizen in the USA is that both parents mush be full USA citizens at the time that a person is born.”
You are absolutely correct and it is actually the only criteria.
Cruz is by law a citizen at birth.
Article II demands a citizen at the time of adoption of the Constitution, thereafter only a natural born citizen can be President.
“Note that neither parent was a citizen of Canada, where he was born. I do not know if Canada allows the born children of non-citizens to have birthright citizenship, but Cruz’s parents never claimed Canadian citizenship for him in either case. They also didn’t make him a Cuban citizen. So he had no dual nationality.”
You have to be born within the jurisdiction of the United States to citizen parents in order to be a natural born Citizen. That ensures allegiance to America. Here is what the father of the 14th Amendment John Bingham stated:
“Every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” (Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))”
What foreign sovereignty did Cruz’s dad owe his allegiance to?
Most of the post 2008 birthers are nothing but trolls in my opinion.
8 USC § 1401 - Nationals and citizens of United States at birth
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1401
The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
(a) a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;...
(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years
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Citizen at birth. Not nationalized at a later date.
He may have been a US citizen at birth. A natur born citizen is a different thing.
FR is the ONLY site on the internet. Amazing I know, but it’s true. All “birthers” were not active until joining FR.
You may want to reconsider your remark.
Reagan bailed in the 50s.
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