"""I think he flunks Article II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution.""""
Okay Something we agree on... Take care I may not have been really clear on where I was going with that either.
If I were running Cruz, I would have two immediate objectives.
I would be trying to amend the Constitution to define Natural Born Citizen--maybe something like citizen at birth plus two grandparents and four great grandparents born in the USA.
I would also be trying to smoke Barry out on the theory that putting the Liberals on the defensive on Barry would help me with my Constitutional Amendment tactic; and might well also force a Court decision approving Canada that would benefit Cruz.
btw, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz says that he became a Canadian citizen while living in Canada for 8 years.
Only he did that in Canada, where Ted was born. His father went there after having earlier obtained political asylum in the U.S. when his student visa ran out. He then got a green card, he says, and married Ted's mother, an American citizen. The two of them moved to Canada to work in the oil industry.
There is no record of a marriage between Rafael and Eleanor in the state of Texas. Mother of his two daughters, Julia Anne Garza Cruz was born on Aug 22, 1939 in Hidalgo County, Texas. His daughters Miriam & Roxana were born in November of 1961 & 1962.
"I worked in Canada for eight years," Rafael Cruz says. "And while I was in Canada, I became a Canadian citizen."
He was back in Texas by April of 1975. The Daily Court Review reports on April 28, 1975 that Rafael B. Cruz started a new business named Explorer Seismic Services, 7637 Harwin #55, Houston, Tex 77036.
The elder Cruz says he renounced his Canadian citizenship when he finally became a U.S. citizen in 2005 — 48 years after leaving Cuba. Why did he take so long to do it?
"I don't know. I guess laziness, or — I don't know," he says.
Peter Spiro, a legal expert on U.S. citizenship at Temple University, says Rafael Cruz followed "sort of a zigzag path to citizenship." Spiro says Cruz's multicountry odyssey did not follow traditional models for immigration.
Flashback to 2005:
Solicitor general carries “supreme” weight with Katy rootsThursday, August 11, 2005
and a nice bio on Heidi Suzanne Nelson Cruz born on August 7, 1972 in San Luis Obispo:
Heidi CruzRegion Head
Goldman Sachs & Co.