[C210N]

The only reason that 0' was "born in Hawaii" was because his mother did not pass the residency requirement to confer citizenship at birth. Thus, he was born in Kenya, and like many at the time, the mom submits a birth blurb for the local US papers. I clearly would not and do not accept that, but too many 'Rats did and did accept it, twice.

Cruz's mom fulfilled all the residency requirements (see here) to confer birth citizenship, aka NBC.

The U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States for at least years, including at least 2 years after 14 years of age.

[JayGalt]

Citizenship at birth and Natural born citizenship are not the same thing. NBC requires two citizen parents, born on US soil or in the service of the US abroad, like diplomats or military.

It takes a bit of digging to follow all the false trails laid at FR and on the net but if you believe in interpreting the Constitution and Naturalization Acts as written, that is the true and clear definition. If you believe that the Constitution is a living document all bets are off.

[entropy12]

So what you are saying is that the 1000 Saudi people born in Saudi Arabia from American mothers and Saudi fathers are all eligible Natural Born Citizens of the USA?

[Mollypitcher1]

One parrent citizen DOES NOT a natural born citizen make. BOTH parents and born on the soil necessary according to the Constitution which is SUPPOSED TO BE the LAW OF TH LAND! Time to uphold it....what’s left of it!