You didn’t respond to my last paragraph....that no matter what Cruz was born in a foreign country...something Obama took great pains to disprove (sort of) about himself.
Does it no longer matter where someone was born if you want them to be your candidate?
“Does it no longer matter where someone was born if you want them to be your candidate”
Congress has the power to define US citizenship including natural born citizenship, which Congress has done continuously since 1790 (although they have changed the law from time to time.)
The law says that if a child is born in foreign country to 1 US parent (who has lived in the USA a minimum of 10 years, 5 years of which over the age of 14),
then they are a natural born citizen.
So, no, it does not matter where they were born, if they meet the other criteria.
But to be President, a person ALSO must live in the United States for at least 14 years themselves.
I have a friend who lived in Latvia as a missionary birthing a church for 11 years. He is a strong conservative and loyal AMerican.
Do you think it should matter that he went on the mission field sharing Jesus Christ for 11 years?
In fact most people who travel to other countries come back fervently devoted to the United States after seeing what a mess other countries are.
People who travel to other countries grow in loyalty to the USA.
It is the people who think other countries are better and have never gone to see who are our biggest problems.
I have heard parents joking 20 years ago that they should send their children to Europe for a few months to straighten them out.