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To: cookcounty
Marco Rubio.

Anchor baby, Cuban.

106 posted on 01/17/2016 8:42:22 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Santorum born in Cuba


128 posted on 01/17/2016 8:50:10 AM PST by hoosiermama (Make America Great Again by uniting Great Americans)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Marco Rubio. Anchor baby, Cuban.

His parents were legal residents of the United States, had already begun the (time-consuming*) process of getting citizenship, and were subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.**

"Anchor baby" refers to a child born in the US to a foreigner without resident status, who then uses that birth to attempt to gain legal residency in the US.

Rubio is not an "anchor baby" (though he is the chief beneficiary of this DumbTrumpDump). Try again.

* "time consuming" because you have to file all your papers, state intent, and then wait a minimum of 5 years. His parents were naturalized in 1975, Rubio was born in 1971, obviously they had already sworn as to their intent before he was born.

** "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" means they had no diplomatic immunity and could be tried in American courts just like you or me."

198 posted on 01/17/2016 9:24:22 AM PST by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Ann Coulter is in error,

she cites English Common Law from 1608 describing a natural born citizen as having that status due to sui juris solis (right of soil) but ignores English Common Law references to by sui juris sanguinis (right of blood). BOTH are present in common law. It is under the latter, that Cruz is a "natural born citizen."

Natural born citizenship is revokable for a number of causes, including the failure of a "by right of blood" Natural Born Citizen to subsequently take up residence within the United States (SCOTUS case Rogers v. Bellei, 1970,1971). Bellei was born in Italy of a US citizen mother, subsequently did not live in the US, then applied for a job at NATO with the US government, but was disqualified because he had lost his US citizenship by failure of residency. Bellei was "denaturalized." Cruz does not have Bellei's problem.

Another issue is dual citizenship. It used to be (When Cruz was a kid) that one could not be firstly a citizen of a different country and subsequently gain citizenship of the US without renouncing the prior citizenship. But was his Canadian citizenship "prior", since he gained natural born citizenship of the US at birth by right of blood (his US citizen mother) , yet by right of soil simultaneously gained Canadian citizenship (since she was temporarily in Canada when she gave birth?

The objection is raised that Cruz' parents had to "register" his birth, but that is an administrative function to give evidence of the birth (pointless for the NB citizenship argument unless someone wants to argue that Ted Cruz was switched at birth and had a Canadian mother). It isn't the registration that grants citizenship, it's the birth, and the Canadian citizenship did not precede the US citizenship. If he was "naturalized," where is the evidence of his swearing loyalty to the United States? When and where did that occur? It doesn't exist, because he had citizenship from birth. The only question is: Is he the son of his mother or not, and is there any grounds in law for revocation?

246 posted on 01/17/2016 10:12:40 AM PST by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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