Posted on 12/30/2013 2:48:37 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
WASHINGTON — The junior senator from Texas is still a Canadian. But he’s working on it, eh?
Born in Alberta 43 years ago last Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz was unaware of his dual nationality until The Dallas Morning News explored the issue in August.
Since then, he said in a recent interview, “I have retained counsel that is preparing the paperwork to renounce the citizenship.”
He expects to complete the process in 2014. That time frame jibes with predictions from Canadian legal experts.
He doesn’t dispute holding dual citizenship. “Not at this point,” he said.
When Cruz was born, his parents were living in the Canadian oil patch in Calgary. His mother is a native-born American. His father, a Cuban émigré who later became a naturalized American, was still a Cuban citizen.
Under U.S. law, a child born with even one American parent is automatically entitled to citizenship, even if the birth takes place outside the country. Canada, like the United States, also confers automatic citizenship to anyone born on its soil, regardless of the parents’ nationalities.
That revelation by The News startled Cruz and his parents.
His mother, he said, had understood that it would have taken an affirmative act to claim Canadian citizenship, and that’s what she’d told him as a child.
“There was no reason to retain counsel to analyze Canadian law, because it wasn’t relevant to anything I was doing,” he said.
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I guess that’s better than our current Prez who holds NO citizenship.
Cruz ping
Obama’s status as a natural born citizen is also clear, born all the way across the glove in Africa to a Kenyan father. Obama is not a natural born citizen.
The commies at the Dull-Ass Morning News are sure giving Ted fair coverage compared to Abortion Barbie.
NOT !
If only the Primaries would start in Texas instead of some insignificant rural state!
Yup. The topic was abortion, I think.
Has Baraq Husein Ubama Soetoro ever renounced his Indonesian citizenship?
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