He was born on Canadian soil.
Being all hung up on the magical qualities of soil ownership by country, how do you figure that he is even a citizen?
There are some and I’ve read them here, whose nonsensical notions regarding his Canadian soil birth actually render him not even an American.
Question:
Is he an American?
If yes, on what basis, and did that basis confer on him American citizenship AT BIRTH, or was he required to obtain NATURALIZED citizenship later on, as an adult?
If he is an American and has citizenship by birth and not by obtaining naturalized citizenship, according to Ted Cruz himself and a host of others, that is their understanding of “natural born”.
They believe “natural born” is the opposite of “naturalized”.
That it does not reference soil of birth.
I will mention their understanding, from time to time, but overall I refuse to engage in these useless debates.
He (Cruz) can speak for himself. He knows just a little bit about the law, eh?
I will let him and those who agree with him debate “my side” of this if it ever rises to that level of need.
Is he an American?
If yes, on what basis, and did that basis confer on him American citizenship AT BIRTH, or was he required to obtain NATURALIZED citizenship later on, as an adult?
The answer and the facts:
Blanket 'collective naturalization' citizenship under statute law. Cruz was granted US citizenship under the "1952 McCarran–Walter Immigration and Nationality Act". Without an act of Congress, Cruz may not have been a citizen at birth through collective naturalization.
If Cruz was born between 1922 (Cable act) and circa 1932, Cruz would have not been a US citizen at birth by being born in Canada or much of the time before 1922. Women lost their US citizenship upon marriage with foreigners because they would take the foreign citizenship from their husbands.
It is what the liberal jurist Ruth Bader Ginsberg called "The bad old days" (LoL) in her reference that women's US citizenship were tied to their husbands and fathers.