I just read one poster say that Canadian law doesn’t permit anchor babies to be Canadian citizens, so his birth there to foreign citizens didn’t make him a Canadian citizen.
That is irrelevant to me, however. US law says he’s automatically a US citizen at birth. It does. It’s irrefutable. Armchair hypothesizing might be fun, but it isn’t the law.
“I just read one poster say that Canadian law doesn’t permit anchor babies to be Canadian citizen”
This is incorrect.
“Citizenship is automatic and goes back to the day the person was born”
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/rules_2009.asp
Cruz is a Canadian citizen by birth.
“so his birth there to foreign citizens didn’t make him a Canadian citizen.”
Cruz’s father isn’t an American either, he’s a Cuban national who was residing in Canada at the time.
This really isn’t shaping up very well for you. Not only is Cruz a Canadian citizen at birth, your definition makes him a citizen of Cuba too. That gives him not just two, but three nationalities.
I like Cruz, but having a Cuban and Canadian citizen in the white house is not acceptable. We can do better.
“It’s irrefutable”
Given as you are wrong about Canadian law, what else are you wrong about?
“I just read one poster say that Canadian law doesn’t permit anchor babies to be Canadian citizens, so his birth there to foreign citizens didn’t make him a Canadian citizen.”
Incorrect:
From http://www.capitalnews.ca/index.php/news/citizenship comes this:
“As [British Columbia immigration lawyer Steven] Meurrens points out, Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s regulations state that entering Canada for the purpose of giving birth is not a barrier to entry and Canadians should take pride in the fact the country allows birthright citizenship.”
Born on Canadian soil = Canadian citizen.
“That is irrelevant to me, however. US law says he’s automatically a US citizen at birth.”
You are correct, he is a citizen by law, but not a natural born citizen which is required to be President of the US. You can’t make a natural born citizen by law.
With a Cuban father and being born on Canadian Soil to an American mother makes Cruz a triple-citizen, subject to the laws of all three countries - unless of course, he has formally renounced his Cuban and Canadian citizenships.
Given what passes for the law these days, i'm not sure the armchair hypothesizers could do any worse than the "professionals." Wickard, Kelo, Roe, Lawrence, Obamacare etc. ?
Yeah, the "professionals" have made a muck of it.