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To: justlittleoleme

Anyone who says Cruz is not a citizen does not know the law. A person who is born to a citizen regardless of where that citizen was born is a natural born citizen. This is because under the law only one parent has to be a citizen to confer natural citizenship on their offspring.


84 posted on 01/15/2016 11:31:57 AM PST by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: ColdSteelTalon

Show us that law. Please cite a specific statute supporting your claim.


95 posted on 01/15/2016 11:41:26 AM PST by Ray76
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To: ColdSteelTalon
A person who is born to a citizen regardless of where that citizen was born is a natural born citizen.

Hmm, that would mean Putin could come over here, have a kid with an American woman, take him back and raise him in Russia.

Then he could send the kid back here to fulfill the 14 year requirement, and that kid is a NBC eligible to be POTUS??

You really think the founders intended that with the term NBC?

97 posted on 01/15/2016 11:43:32 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of Socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: ColdSteelTalon
A person who is born to a citizen regardless of where that citizen was born is a natural born citizen.

Your statement is a bit at-odds with a prior statement of the U.S. Supreme Court:

"Every person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization. A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized, either by treaty, as in the case of the annexation of foreign territory, or by authority of Congress, exercised either by declaring certain classes of persons to be citizens, as in the enactments conferring citizenship upon foreign-born children of citizens, or by enabling foreigners individually to become citizens by proceedings in the judicial tribunals, as in the ordinary provisions of the naturalization acts." U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 696, 702, 703 (1898).

If foreign-born children can only become citizens by being naturalized via statute, how is it that they are also "natural born citizens?"

117 posted on 01/15/2016 12:20:16 PM PST by CpnHook
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To: ColdSteelTalon
This is because under the law only one parent has to be a citizen to confer natural citizenship on their offspring.

Which law in particular are you talking about? USC 8?

132 posted on 01/15/2016 1:06:19 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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