Ted Cruz father was Cuban, he was born in the US...
No, Ted’s father was born in Cuba and became a naturalized US citizen in 2005 after he renounced his Canadian citizenship.
The more natural reading of the language and original understanding of the “natural born” citizenship requirement therefore would seem to be that one needed to be born, as the 14th Amendment put it, “in the United States,” rather than that one had an American parent. The Constitution, as opposed to any statute, prescribes birthright citizenship, not lineage, as the constitutional definition of acquiring citizenship at birth. Any statute expanding that definition to take into account the massively increased mobility of American citizens since the rural agrarian roots of the Constitution in 1787 would provide a means of automatic naturalization.
In short, the framers of both the original Constitution and the 14th Amendment seem to have distinguished between constitutionally and legislatively conferred citizenship.
Those who acquire their citizenship by virtue of birth in the United States are, according to the 14th Amendment, constitutionally conferred citizens, which also seems to be the original understanding of “natural born” citizens. All others must secure their citizenship through legislative enactment, i.e. naturalization, whether with or without any required process or prerequisites.
The irony, of course, which cannot be lost on Sen. Ted Cruz, is that under the Constitution anyone born in the United States to a set of undocumented immigrants has a much clearer and more certain legal entitlement to run for president of the United States than he does.
No wonder Cruz has railed against birthright citizenship, even though it is expressly contained in the first sentence of the 14th Amendment, a document he swore an oath of office to uphold.
Finally, regarding his US citizenship, he was a Canadian Citizen until 2014, when he formally renounced his Canadian Citizenship, so for most of his life, he was a dual Citizen.
When he decided to run for President, he took immediate steps to renounce his Canadian citizenship.
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Well, that process was formally completed last month, and he received a letter in the mail this week telling him so, the newspaper reported Tuesday.
“This is to certify that the person named above has formally renounced Canadian citizenshp and pursuant to the Citizenship Act will cease to be a citizen on” May 14, 2014, the letter read.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/11/politics/ted-cruz-canada-citizenship/