Your way of looking at it is not unique to you but it is flawed. Ted Cruz was not a citizen until someone proved to the State Department that he was entitled to be a citizen because he and his citizen parent met the statutory conditions laid out by Congress and applicable at the time of his birth.
Children born abroad to a citizen parent have not always been deemed to be citizens, think of the children born to our soldiers in Vietnam who are not in the main deemed eligible for citizenship. A child with a citizen mother but not a citizen Father would not have been entitled to citizenship early in our countries history because women could not pass on that right. As the citizenship statutes evolved and changed a child might or might not gain citizenship based on the number of years the parent had lived in the US prior to the birth and after a certain age.
If indeed any child with citizen parentage on either side born anywhere in the world became instantly a citizen at birth, not only would it be a disaster but we wouldn’t need 10’s of pages of statutes to decide which children were eligible. The children would still need to prove their connection to the citizen parent and that parent prove their current citizenship.
So it is patently false to suggest that Ted Cruz, born in a foreign country to a non-US father and a possibly still US citizen mother was a citizen at birth without needing to prove his circumstances conformed to the statutes in force at the time of his birth. There needs to be a paper trail.
If his right to citizenship was so proved then he would be entitled to the same rights and responsibilities as anyone who gained citizenship under the 14th amendment. Just like any other citizen granted citizenship from the 14th amendment he would not be eligible to run for the offices of the Presidency/Vice Presidency.
Agree. It is false to suggest that Ted Cruz, born in a foreign country to a non-US father and a possibly still US citizen mother was a citizen at birth without needing to prove his circumstances conformed to the statutes in force at the time of his birth. There needs to be a paper trail.
>> Some want to believe that one may appear at anytime and any age and demand US citizenship and full rights. It has never been this way.<<<
If his right to citizenship was so proved then he would be entitled to the same rights and responsibilities as anyone who gained citizenship under the 14th amendment. Just like any other citizen granted citizenship from the 14th amendment he would not be eligible to run for the offices of the Presidency/Vice Presidency.
>>When a citizen acquires citizenship by statute - he is not a natural born citizen, he is naturalized because he required a law, a piece of paper to make him a citizen other than where he originated.<<