Posted on 10/29/2013 9:02:51 AM PDT by txrangerette
Cruz said in an interview with Fusion that because his mother is an American citizen he is a citizen as well.
"I was a U.S. Citizen by birth and beyond that I'm going to leave it to others to worry about...legal consequences", he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
His mother was born in DE in 1935. She graduated from college in TX in 1956.
Cruz was born in 1970 and his father met his mother in New Orleans after his first marriage broke up some time after 1960.
Only after his parents married did they move to Calgary together.
So if his mother was 14 in 1949 and did not move to Canada until some time after 1960 - which is apparently the case - there is no legal dispute.
Maybe you should read the law more. Here, try reading this:
8 U.S.C. § 1401 : US Code - Section 1401: Nationals and citizens of United States at birth
Actually READ the law instead of spouting what you *THINK* it says. Don't be afraid. It is written in plain English. No fancy Latin, no fancy wording, just plain old English that a 6th grader can read.
I just handed you and everyone reading this post the link to the actual law, yet, we'll still get a bunch of morons claiming things not in law as they will not take the time to read it. People who do that are no better than any liberal claiming crap they know nothing about. In my book, that makes them liberals.
Cruz would otherwise appear to be the correct candidate at a very important moment in our history. Most of us are prepared to accept that his intentions for our country are beyond any reasonable question.
The very real risk is that someday in the future it will be said that “there is valid precedence on both sides of the political spectrum” that NBC status can be acquired on the basis of one parent being a US citizen, regardless of place of birth.
Think about the possibilities that offers and then also think about how our nation has drifted politically in the past 60 years.
There is nothing stopping Arnold from RUNNING for President. He can’t actually assume the Office but he can run.
Not according to Minor v. Happersett...
Cruz is eligible because Obama was elected. Argument ends there. If I refute the fact that Obama was not elected then I can refute Cruz is ineligible. I can’t refute that Obama was elected.
The electorate has lowerd the Constitutional bar. Simple.
It’s not about whether he is or isn’t so much as that *any time at all* is dedicated to discussing/explaining it. This will be like gum on the sole of a shoe. It’s truly unfortunate. And not fair.
Yeah. Cruz came from Canada. Obama came from Hell. Cruz is much more eligible.
Here’s the actual law:
“A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) of the INA provided the U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child’s birth. (For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen, is required for physical presence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions to transmit U.S. citizenship .
cruz’s mommy meets this requirement. Bammys mommy doesn’t........
I disagree.
The Supreme Court Miller decision was "settled law" for about 70 years, with judges declaring that the right to keep and bear arms was a "collective right" of the organized Militia. This settled law was set straight by the Heller decision.
If the Founders had meant to allow a person who has only one citizen parent to be President, they could easily have said that.
Others have posted on this very thread the statute which discussed the circumstances under which a woman could pass on U.S. citizenship to her child. Statutory arrangements regarding citizenship are proof, as far as I am concerned, that the citizenship in question could never have been considered "natural born".
Cruz should run so that if the supreme court rules him ineligble it would nullify every obama decision made as potus......
Fat is we really do not know where Obama was born for sure.
They only lowered the bar for natural born citizen for Democrats. You can expect the bar to be as high as possible when applied to a Tea Party hero.
Isn’t it obvious that the Democrats and GOPe only apply the law when it is to their advantage?
Selective enforcement is how the Democrats maintain their unfair advantage over us law biding folks.
You misread the finding.
The court found that the Constitution does not specify, but that Minor was a natural born citizen under any possible definition because she was born on US soil to US citizen parents.
The case did not attempt to define "natural born" - it only opined that Minor's natural citizenship was unassailable.
Cruz is eligible because Obama was elected.
Incorrect. Cruz is eligible because he is a natural born citizen of the United States.
Yes, it is, and you make my point for me.
On the one hand we have Ted Kennedy killing a woman, and on the other we have, say, my cousin Dan, a brilliant economist who has, say, an unpaid traffic ticket for speeding and going through a red light. Except Dan is conservative.
They will never stop talking about Dan’s recklessness and irresponsibility during his entire campaign. Welcome to the world we live in.
As evidenced by the fact that we got this info about Cruz from Obama guard dog Fx News, as I have mentioned elsewhere, I will support whichever "conservative" candidate that Fx selects as Republican presidential nominee. (I know nomination process isn't supposed to work that way but ...)
Yep with sunglasses he looks like Roy Orbison and without sunglasses he looks alot like Joe McCarthy, which whom I believe he was RIGHT all along.
Now I just need to know since Ted is a good debater is he good with a guitar? =)
Thanks for this!!! Unarguable.
Where were you for the past couple of days when I had a mob at my throat for saying (a very simplified version) of the same thing?
No. I don’t agree. He’s a natural born US citizen, the meaning of which, clearly, is “born a citizen” except to concern trolls from the democrat side.
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